If I Were Not A Jew I

If A Theory Can Not Be Explained To A Child, Then The Theory Is Probably Worthless.

I Have Never Looked Upon Ease And Happiness As Ends In Themselves - This Critical Basis I Call The Ideal Of A Pigsty. The Ideals That Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed Empty To Me. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts - Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury - Have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

In The Teaching Of Geography And History A Sympathetic Understanding (should) Be Fostered For The Characteristics Of The Different Peoples Of The World, Especially For Those Who We Are In The Habit Of Describing As "primitive.

Thinking Is To Man What Flying Is To Birds. Don’t Follow The Example Of A Chicken When You Could Be A Lark.

A Man's Ethical Behaviour Should Be Based Effectually On Sympathy, Education, And Social Ties And Needs; No Religious Basis Is Necessary. Man Would Indeed Be In A Poor Way If He Had To Be Restrained By Fear Of Punishment And Hope Of Reward After Death.