The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
From Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
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