Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.

When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.