... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

I don't believe in mathematics.

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

I cannot seriously believe in it [quantum theory] because the theory cannot be reconciled with the idea that physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.