The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet