What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.