I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

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

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.