The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".

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

Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.