and at least one philosopher.
“It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.” – On receiving Lord & Taylor Award, 1953.
- “At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.”
- “I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”
- “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
- “It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere."
- “I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." -to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)
- "Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
- “I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
- “Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”
- “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
- “Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
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