In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

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.

One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time.

The flag is a symbol of the fact that man is still a herd animal.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.