The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.