In mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd.