Warfare cannot be humanized.

I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.

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

There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think