Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

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.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.