The Pursuit Of Truth And

I Know Quite Certainly That I Myself Have No Special Talent; Curiosity, Obsession And Dogged Endurance, Combined With Self-criticism, Have Brought Me To My Ideas.

You Can't Blame Gravity For Falling In Love.

Dear Posterity, If You Have Not Become More Just, More Peaceful, And In General More Sensible... Then May The Devil Take You!

The Religious Geniuses Of All Ages Have Been Distinguished By This Kind Of Religious Feeling, Which Knows No Dogma And No God Conceived In Man's Image; So That There Can Be No Church Whose Central Teachings Are Based On It. Hence It Is Precisely Among The Heretics Of Every Age That We Find Men Who Were Filled With This Highest Kind Of Religious Feeling And Were In Many Cases Regarded By Their Contemporaries As Atheists, Sometimes Also As Saints. Looked At In This Light, Men Like Democritus, Francis Of Assisi, And Spinoza Are Closely Akin To One Another.

Don't Do Anything That Goes Against Your Conscience, Even If Your Country Says So.