Man is here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral.