It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.

With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Our use of the phrase 'The Dark Ages' to cover the period from 600 to 1000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe. [...] From India to Spain, the brilliant civilisation of Islam flourished. What was lost to Christendom at this time was not lost to civilisation, but quite the contrary. [...] To us it seems that West-European civilisation is civilisation, but this is a narrow view.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.