The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed.

Peace is self-control at its widest-at the width where the "self" has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality.

Problems are only opportunities in disquise.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Value is coextensive with reality.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.