"It was the experience of mystery - even……" — Albert Einstein
"It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion."
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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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It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to…
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America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe…
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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act…
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading…
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It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful…
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The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully,…
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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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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely…
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The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who…
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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must…
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I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people…
— Peter Cosgrove
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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy…
— William James
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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded…
— Plato
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment…
— Sigmund Freud
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at…
— Rose Macaulay
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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is…
— William Irwin Thompson
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
— William Godwin
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