Love & Life Sayings

I am almost ashamed to be living in such peace while all the rest struggle and suffer.

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

Jena came twenty years after the death of Frederick the Great; the crash will come twenty years after my departure if things go on like this.

Hands of an artist are to be kissed; those who are artists shall not kiss hands!

The seas of the four directions – all are born of one womb: why, then, do the wind and waves rise in discord?

Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

I have a heart of steel.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

To destroy you is no loss, to preserve you is no gain.

Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't satisfactory.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

The scientist has to be a poet in his heart and a logician in his mind.

I am a very happy man, and have a good wife, and am very well content.

I have been thinking about the nature of things, and I have come to the conclusion that there is a good deal of it.

The telephone may be used to talk to the dead, and the dead may be used to talk to the living.