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

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.