I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest |
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings |
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. |
I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds. |
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos |
I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe. |
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. |
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty. |
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field. |
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. |
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. |
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. |
I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. |
I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth... rocks." |
I don´t know the weapons that will used in the Third Great War, but in the Forth Great War men will kill each other with stones and wood clubs. |