The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
