If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.