The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.