It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.