Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here.

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.