The Ideas That Have Lighted My Way

There Is, However, One Other Human Right Which Is Infrequently Mentioned But Which Seems To Be Destined To Become Very Important: This Is The Right, Or The Duty, Of The Individual To Abstain From Cooperating In Activities Which He Considers Wrong Or Pernicious.

When I Was A Fairly Precocious Young Man I Became Thoroughly Impressed With The Futility Of The Hopes And Strivings That Chase Most Men Restlessly Through Life. Moreover, I Soon Discovered The Cruelty Of That Chase, Which In Those Years Was Much More Carefully Covered Up By Hypocrisy And Glittering Words Than Is The Case Today. By The Mere Existence Of His Stomach Everyone Was Condemned To Participate In That Chase. The Stomach Might Well Be Satisfied By Such Participation, But Not Man Insofar As He Is A Thinking And Feeling Being.

The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious. It Is The Source Of All True Art And Science. He To Whom The Realm Of The Spirit For Your Own Personal Joy And To The Profit Of The Community To Which Your Later Work Belongs.

It Is Intelligent To Have A Plan, But Neurotic To Fall In Love With It.

If You're Not Sure Why You're Doing Something, You Can Never Do Enough Of It. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.