Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.