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The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
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The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
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Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
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I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.
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When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
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Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive.
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No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake.
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The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.