The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.