"Brief is this existence, as a visit in……" — Albert Einstein
"Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness."
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
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The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the…
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An…
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our…
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
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