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

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

All art has this characteristic-it unites people.