The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest