It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, ‘progress’ would become mechanical and trivial.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

The military superiority of Europe to Asia is not an eternal law of nature, as we are tempted to think, and our superiority in civilization is a mere delusion.

For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we must substitute cooperation. We must learn to think of the human race as one family.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.