Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

If people would only talk about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.