SimplyNeo Quotes

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

I do not believe in the immortality of the inidual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the inidual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the inidual.

statement, England, September 15, 1933

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Living Philosophies, 1931

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.