So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Out of the clutter find Simplicity

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.