“I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate i...”

“Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.”

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.”

“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.”

“About my interests: I dont know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink its...”

“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ”

“Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.”