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

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

[Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility.