“I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music”

“As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.”

“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.”

“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? ”

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

“with every action theres an equal opposite reaction,with every problem theres a solution just a matter of taking action”

“Tanda kecerdasan sejati bukanlah pengetahuan tapi imajinasi.”

“Locura es hacer la misma cosa una y otra vez esperando obtener diferentes resultados”

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”

“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us”

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

“The tendencies we have mentioned are something new for America. They arose when, under the influence of the two World Wars and the consequent concentration of all forces on a military goal, a predominantly military mentality developed, which with the almost sudden victory became even more accentuated. The characteristic feature of this mentality is that people place the importance of what Bertrand Russell so tellingly terms “naked power” far above all other factors which affect the relations between peoples. The Germans, misled by Bismarck’s successes in particular, underwent just such a transformation of their mentality—in consequence of which they were entirely ruined in less than a hundred years. I must frankly confess that the foreign policy of the United States since the termination of hostilities has reminded me, sometimes irresistibly, of the attitude of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, and I know that, independent of me, this analogy has most painfully occurred to others as well. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts—in short, the psychological factors—are considered as unimportant and secondary. Herein lies a certain resemblance to Marxism, at least insofar as its theoretical side alone is kept in view. The individual is degraded to a mere instrument; he becomes “human materiel.” The normal ends of human aspiration vanish with such a viewpoint. Instead, the military mentality raises “naked power” as a goal in itself—one of the strangest illusions to which men can succumb.”

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

“Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.”