The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.