There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The cult of individuals is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts unevenly among her children. But… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share
“Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't true.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. — Albert Einstein Copy Share