Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.
That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man’s guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few.
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
Don’t dream of being a good person, being a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.