How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.