The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us, let it be the measure of our virtue that we know this and seek no comfort.

I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.