I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve… — 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 Image
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The world we have made is a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image