Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

Love personalizes all that it loves. Only by personalizing it can we fall in love with an idea.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe.