Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

Figuring out how to think about the problem.