...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible.

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

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

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

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.