I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference.
The world is made of sugar and dirt.
I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show you how to inspire yourself every day of your life. They don't show you their magic. They show you how to make magic of your own.
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.
Cultivate your Futurism. I'll cultivate my Döblinism.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.
Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty.
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!