If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt, be frightened, but do not be silenced.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.