Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.