Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.