Winterthur, Switzerland July 07, 1901

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misanthrope
From now on I'll not turn any longer to this kind of
person but will rather attack them mercilessly via journals, as they deserve. It is no wonder that little by little one becomes a misanthrope.

Winterthur, Switzerland July 08, 1901

Authority gone to one's head is the greatest enemy of truth.

Winterthur, Switzerland September 06, 1901

http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/schopenhauer/Schopenhauer-7.pdf
Have you too already looked at Schopenhauer's Aphorisms
on the Wisdom of Life? This is a part of Parerga & Paralipomena, and I liked it very much.

Schaffhausen, Switzerland November 23, 1901

Einstein submits a doctoral dissertation to the University of Zurich.

Schaffhausen, Switzerland December 12, 1901

We shall remain students as long as we live, and shall
not give a damn about the world.

Schaffhausen, Switzerland December 17, 1901

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_of_Sinope
I am now working very eagerly on an electrodynamics
of moving bodies, which promises to become a capital paper.

If Diogenes were to live today, he would look with his lantern for an honest person in vain.

Schaffhausen, Swtizerland December 28, 1901

I now want to buckle down and study what Lorentz and Drude have written on the electrodynamics of moving bodies.

You should just hear Ehrat talking about marriage, it's too funny. He talks about it as about a bitter medicine that has simply to be taken dutifully. His wife will find it amusing. How differently people look at one and the same thing, it's very funny. isn't it.

Johonzel