“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. S...” — Thomas Jefferson Quote

“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.”

“Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.”

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

“I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.”

“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”

“The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.”

“The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.”

“The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.”

“My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world.”

“What, they should ask, will happen to the human psyche when such a defining part of the human evolutionary experience is diminished or erased?”