There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

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

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

No one has ever asked to see my degree certificate.

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

Eating soup with a fork: slow and messy.

Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.