Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.