The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
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.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.