In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions

Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego

The war is won, but the peace is not.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.