We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.