For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

Judaism was not a religion but a law.

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight

My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths

The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.

We exist only to exist.

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

We have been involved in racing for so long, it is astonishing we were not born with hooves.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.

Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.