But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot!

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.