Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Funny
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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.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Funny
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
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A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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