Am I, or the others crazy?

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.

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.

Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.