The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.