These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
A useless life is an early death.
If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.
Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.
To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which the Jews have zealously co-operated. And this evil anti-social aspect of Jewry has grown to a stage at which: it must necessarily collapse.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.
As for what I have done as a poet, I take no pride in whatever. Excellent poets have lived at the same time with me, poets more excellent lived before me, and others will come after me. But that in my country I am the only person who knows the truth in the difficult science of colors-of that, I say, I am not a little proud, and here have a consciousness of superiority to many.
The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
What we don't know is much more than what we know.
Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.
We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.
Success = 1 part work plus 1 part play plus 1 part keep your mouth shut
To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
Love grants in a momentWhat toil can hardly achieve in an age.[Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die LiebeWas Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!
Time does not exist - we invented it
Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.
You never fail until you stop trying.
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
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