If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what a pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you’re blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts.
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.
Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
The world needs heroes and it’s better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
Have the courage to take your own thoughts seriously, for they will shape you.
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can’t help it, a warning example.
Without “ethical culture”, there is no salvation for humanity.
Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.