It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

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.

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists. You know, it has always hurt me to think that Galileo did not acknowledge the work of Kepler.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.