True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.