I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I am at one with my duality.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.