Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know God’s thoughts, the rest are details.
You can’t use an old map to explore a new world.
Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
We are part of the whole which we call the universe, but it is an optical delusion of our mind that we think we are separate. This separateness is like a prison for us. Our job is to widen the circle of our compassion so we feel connected with all people and situations.
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.
Am I, or are the others, crazy?
Love brings much happiness, much more so than pining for someone brings pain.
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
Don’t listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries – not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.
I admit that thoughts influence the body.
I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.