Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.

The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

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