It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

I want to know all God's thoughts.

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.