If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

My doctor said to me afterwards, 'When you were ill you behaved like a true philosopher. Every time you came to yourself you made a joke.' I never had a compliment that pleased me more.

The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

All movements go too far.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative.