I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

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

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.