Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.