- A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I or are the others crazy?
- All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
- I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
mar 28 2012 ∞
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