I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
