The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.
Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.
Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question. [A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]
I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.
No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
I never saw Death before, and now I see That it is warring eyes in a woman's form.
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence.
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
