The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life – that remains the main objective…to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form of moral specialisation within humanity.