Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.