I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.
Out of clutter, find simplicity.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of co...
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt...
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.