That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.

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