Quotes

“If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.” Albert Einstein

“They certainly give very strange names to diseases.” Plato

“Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.” Albert Einstein

“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.” Plato

“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 and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.” Albert Einstein

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” Plato

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Albert Einstein

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.” Albert Einstein

“Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.” Albert Einstein

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.” Albert Einstein

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” Plato

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” Plato

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” Plato

“As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.” Woody Allen

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.” Plato

“Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.” Woody Allen

“His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.” Woody Allen

“How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?” Woody Allen

“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?” Woody Allen

“I am at two with nature.” Woody Allen

“I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.” Woody Allen

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.” Woody Allen

“I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” Woody Allen

“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam. I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.” Woody Allen

“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” Woody Allen

“If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.” Woody Allen

“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.” Woody Allen

“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.” Woody Allen

“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.” Woody Allen