Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education.

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.