“Religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”

“The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.”

“God was conceived of a most pure Virgin … it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.”

“Both Art and Religion are on the way. Both must go hand in hand as ever before. Both together illuminating our sciences will constitute the soul of this civilization.”

“You can try to mix capitalism and socialism together, but you cannot be both at the same time! In the end, one system will always take over the other. Resulting in a true/false friendship.”

“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”

“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.”

“Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.”

“You married an angel and a devil mixed together there, mrs. Horowitz.”

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”