Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

Curiosity is its own reason.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.