上帝对人类的唯一要求是一颗平静的心。

"The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

没有艺术；没有文学；没有社会；最糟糕的是，持续的恐惧和暴力死亡的危险；人的生命是孤独、贫穷、丑陋、野蛮和短暂的。