What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.

While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people.

Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.