We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.

All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine.

Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.