We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.
The state was made for man, not man for state.
I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
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 r...
Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (19...
Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A fine...
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.