There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had powerful transpersonal experiences and continues to subscribe to the materialistic monism of Western science.

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.