No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

Love is a state of temporary psychosis.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.