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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.
The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis
To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.
Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.
Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.