We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.