"I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few."

"I love Humanity but I hate humans."

"The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of production, the worker produces new goods which become the property of the capitalist. The essential point about this process is the relation between what the worker produces and what he is paid, both measured in terms of real value. Insofar as the labor contract is "free," what the worker receives is determined not by the real value of the goods he produces, but by his minimum needs and by the capitalists' requirements for labor power in relation to the number of workers competing for jobs. It is important to understand that even in theory the payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product."

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

"Love is a better teacher than duty."

"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."

"God does not play dice with the universe."

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

"As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality."

"The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library."

"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."

"Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."

"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals."

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail."

"How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."

"Humor, motivations, moral,gods,energy,secrecy."

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."

"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

"Logic will get you from A to Z, imagination will get you everywhere."

"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."

"Nothing happens until something moves."

"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."

"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self."

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them."

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

"Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing? Schopenhauer once said: Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will (Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills)."

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

"Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity."

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description."

"Those whose acquaintance with scientific research is derived chiefly from its practical results easily develop a completely false notion of the mentality of the men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world and through the centuries. Only one who has devoted his life to similar ends can have a vivid realization of what has inspired these men and given them the strength to remain true to their purpose in spite of countless failures. It is cosmic religious feeling that gives a man such strength. A contemporary has said, not unjustly, that in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people."

"Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up."

"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another."