All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.”[Moral...

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

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...

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner...

We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used when we created them.

Intelligent life on other planets? I’m not even sure there is on earth!

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its...

Know where to find the information and how to use it – That’s the secret of success

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem – in my opinion – to characterize our age

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity… what is still lacking here is...

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other...

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world

How do I work? I grope.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child...

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed

It is best, it seems to me, to separate one’s inner striving from one’s trade as far as possible. It is not good when one’s daily break is tied to God’s special blessing.