I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.

God does not play dice.

For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.