Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering ways of conversing about the great mysteries. The pretense to know all the answers to the deepest mysteries is, of course, the grossest fraud. And any people who declare a Jihad, a holy war on unbelievers - those who do not share their believers' pretended omniscience - are enemies of thinking men and woman and of civilization. I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

The mind is a vagrant thing.... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on company time.

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension.