What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.Sigmund Freud, letter to Ernest Jones (1933), as quoted in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993) by Robert Andrews, p. 779
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals (1822-1863)