You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.