All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.