It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.