The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

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

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.