The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.