We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.