In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

W. Averell Harriman

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

Joseph Rotblat

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.

Ron Ben-Israel

We can't help it. Life looks for life.

Carl Sagan

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

Jimmy Carr

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

John Ray

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Ivan Turgenev

There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her.

John Dickson

It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.

Steve Maraboli

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Chuck Klosterman

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Sallust