People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.