There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Real living is living for others.

In war there is no substitute for victory.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

Religions get lost as people do.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

I don’t pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: ‚I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.‘

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.