Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.