The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Live your life... as though everything is a miracle.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.