Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.