Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.
The most powerful force in the world is compound interest.
A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind’s eye.
Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.
Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
There is no vaccine against stupidity.
Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.
I never said half the crap people said I did.
Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow – perhaps it all will.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.
I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions, and when the answer is simple, God is answering.