To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful." He further added: "No man can read the gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life...Theseus and other heroes of his type lack the authentic vitality of Jesus.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.