Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Albert Einstein

I want to know God's thoughts.

— Albert Einstein

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

— Albert Einstein

I want to Gods thoughts, the rest are details.

— Albert Einstein

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

— Albert Einstein

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.

— Albert Einstein

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

— Albert Einstein

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

— Albert Einstein

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

— Albert Einstein

A problem cannot be solved at the level of consciousness in which it occurs.

— Albert Einstein

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

— Albert Einstein

It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.

— Albert Einstein

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he…

— Albert Einstein

All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course…

— Albert Einstein

The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what…

— Albert Einstein

What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in…

— Albert Einstein

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

— Albert Einstein

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of…

— Albert Einstein

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may…

— Albert Einstein

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as…

— Albert Einstein

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably…

— Albert Einstein

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it…

— Albert Einstein

The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove…

— Albert Einstein

“Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns…

— Albert Einstein

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly…

— Albert Einstein

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion…

— Albert Einstein

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the…

— Albert Einstein

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception…

— Albert Einstein

As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.…

— Albert Einstein

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

— Albert Einstein

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

— Albert Einstein

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

— Albert Einstein

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

— Albert Einstein

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

— Albert Einstein

A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind's eye.

— Albert Einstein

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

— Albert Einstein

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

— Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

— Albert Einstein

“I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details.”

— Albert Einstein

I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed.

— Albert Einstein

God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

— Albert Einstein