Humility is attentive patience.

We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.