With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.