I am very smart. But not as strong-hearted as all the workers on earth for he toils endlessly and does it all to feed his family while I do it merely for solving an impossible puzzle.
A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
People like you and me, though mortal, of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.[Beim Menschen ist es wie beim Velo. Nur wenn er faehrt, kann er bequem die Balance halten.]
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by disposition a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
