“It's my guardian angel in this world.”

“You can't blame gravity for falling in love.”

“We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.”

“One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

“The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.”

“Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.”

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”

“The destiny of civilized humanity depends more than ever on the moral forces it is capable of generating.”

“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”

“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”

“The ordinary objects of human endeavour - property, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.”

“I most seriously believe that one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.”

“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”

“I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.”

“I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.”

“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.”

“I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.”

“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.”

“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”

“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”

“Successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

“Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”

“I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)”

“Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.”

“What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.”

“If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”

“Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.”

“Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.”

“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?”

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

“Love is a better master than duty.”

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”

“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”