Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.