The place of the expert is on tap not on top.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press