Emotions and Feelings

He said he would be willing to subscribe to the idea to resist force with force. Because he said otherwise it's like trying to cure a sick tribe of people. You try to cure them, in a way it is too slow. By the time you cure them with pacifism, they're all dead. That's not very efficient.

He loved Jewish jokes. I have told him many, and the thing I wish most is that I would have a record in which I could capture Einstein's laughter when he heard a good Jewish joke. His laughter sounded something like the bark of a contented seal. It was a very strange sound.

When something struck him as funny, his eyes twinkled merrily and he laughed with his whole being… He was ready for humor.

You are the only sort of man in whose existence I see much hope for in this deplorable world.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

Autobiographies mostly arise out of narcissism or negative feelings toward others. Biographies from the pen of another person tend in their psychological traits to reflect the intellectual and spiritual nature of the writer more than that of the person portrayed.

Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to think too much about the future.

The crime of the Germans is truly the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations. The conduct of the German intellectuals—seen as a group—was no better than that of the mob.

I hardly ever felt as alienated from people as I do right now… The worst is that nowhere is there anything with which one can identify. Brutality and lies are everywhere.

The conscientious objector is a revolutionary. In deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

I have now been promoted to an “evil monster” in Germany, and all my money has been taken away from me. But I console myself with the thought that the latter would soon be gone, anyway.

I have now been promoted to an “evil monster” in Germany, and all my money has been taken away from me. But I console myself with the thought that the latter would soon be gone, anyway.

I’m doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

Funny people, these Germans. To them I am a stinking flower, yet they make me into a boutonniere time and time again.

Like the man in the fairytale who turned everything he touched into gold, so with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

She knows her way around the family of radioactive substances better than I know the way around my own family.

I’ve been so preoccupied with what would happen in the event of my death that I’m surprised to find myself still alive.

I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity.

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude—a feeling which increases over the years.