I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.