A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.