Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

Out of complexity, find simplicity!