One Lives One's Life Under Constant Tension,

In Two Weeks The Sheeplike Masses Of Any Country Can Be Worked Up By The Newspapers Into Such A State Of Excited Fury That Men Are Prepared To Put On Uniforms And Kill And Be Killed, For The Sake Of The Sordid Ends Of A Few Interested Parties. Compulsory Military Service Seems To Me The Most Disgraceful Symptom Of That Deficiency In Personal Dignity From Which Civilized Mankind Is Suffering Today.

What A Person Thinks On His Own Without Being Stimulated By The Thoughts And Experiences Of The Other People Is Even In The Best Case Rather Paltry And Monotonous.

... A Person Who Is Religiously Enlightened Appears To Me To Be One Who Has, To The Best Of His Ability, Liberated Himself From The Fetters Of His Selfish Desires And Is Preoccupied With Thoughts, Feelings, And Aspirations To Which He Clings Because Of Their Superpersonal Value.

The Physicist's Greatest Tool Is His Wastebasket.

One Must Shy Away From Questionable Undertakings, Even When They Bear A High-sounding Name.