Upon reading books on philosophy, I learned that I stood there like a blind man in front of a painting… the works of speculative philosophy are beyond my reach.

War is not a parlor game in which the players obediently stick to the rules. Where life and death are at stake, rules and obligations go by the board. Only the absolute repudiation of all war can be of any use here.

War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces that take part in such an abominable business.

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

We know nothing about it [God and the world] at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. Possibly we shall know a little more than we do now. But the real nature of things, that we shall never know, never.