I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.

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

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.