Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

Imagination is more valuable than information.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.