If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.

The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.