“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

“The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.”

“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.”

“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.”

“I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments”

“Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.”

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”

“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.”

“Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty”

“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are they crazy?” –Albert Einstein”

“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

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

“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”

“La vie c’est comme la bicyclette : quand on arrête de pédaler on tombe.”

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.”