The Only Mistake In Life Is The

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.

A Man Who Is Convinced Of The Truth Of His Religion Is Indeed Never Tolerant. At The Least, He Is To Feel Pity For The Adherent Of Another Religion But Usually It Does Not Stop There. The Faithful Adherent Of A Religion Will Try First Of All To Convince Those That Believe In Another Religion And Usually He Goes On To Hatred If He Is Not Successful. However, Hatred Then Leads To Persecution When The Might Of The Majority Is Behind It.

The Health Of Society Thus Depends Quite As Much On The Independence Of The Individuals Composing It As On Their Close Political Cohesion.

...the Physicist Cannot Simply Surrender To The Philosopher The Critical Contemplation Of The Theoretical Foundations; For, He Himself Knows Best, And Feels More Surely Where The Shoe Pinches...physical Conceptions Are Free Creations Of The Human Mind, And Are Not, However It May Seem, Uniquely Determined By The External World.

Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge.