This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.