There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

I see my life in terms of music.

In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.