Quotes by Philosopher

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

"I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right."

“All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.”

"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."

“Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.”

“Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.”

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."

“The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.”

"To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."

"Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion..."

"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."

“I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.”

"The most powerful force in the world is compound interest."

“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."

“Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.”

“As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.”

"The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned."

"Genius is making complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex."

"The Universe is stranger than we imagine!"

“We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.”

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."