Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.