“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

“You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ”

“The state was made for man, not man for state.”

“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)”

“If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”

“How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.”

“We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”

“The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.”

“The tendencies we have mentioned are something new for America. They arose when, under the influence of the two World Wars and the consequent concentration of all forces on a military goal, a predominantly military mentality developed, which with the almost sudden victory became even more accentuated. The characteristic feature of this mentality is that people place the importance of what Bertrand Russell so tellingly terms “naked power” far above all other factors which affect the relations between peoples. The Germans, misled by Bismarck’s successes in particular, underwent just such a transformation of their mentality—in consequence of which they were entirely ruined in less than a hundred years. I must frankly confess that the foreign policy of the United States since the termination of hostilities has reminded me, sometimes irresistibly, of the attitude of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, and I know that, independent of me, this analogy has most painfully occurred to others as well. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts—in short, the psychological factors—are considered as unimportant and secondary. Herein lies a certain resemblance to Marxism, at least insofar as its theoretical side alone is kept in view. The individual is degraded to a mere instrument; he becomes “human materiel.” The normal ends of human aspiration vanish with such a viewpoint. Instead, the military mentality raises “naked power” as a goal in itself—one of the strangest illusions to which men can succumb.”

“Hakikatku adalah yang aku pikirkan, bukan apa yang aku rasakan”

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.”