A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

The state was made for man, not man for state.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.