If we knew what we were doing it wouldn’t be research.

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.

You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be very intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Man's problem lies not with the atomic bomb, but in his heart.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.