Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.