Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.