There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.