“At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.”

“When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.”

“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”

“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”

“Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.”

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

“Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.”