"The idea of a personal God is an……" — Albert Einstein
"The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously."
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
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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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I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act…
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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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More Anthropological Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses…
— Franz Boas
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Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society,…
— Unknown Author
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It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously.…
— Albert Einstein
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The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite…
— Clifford Geertz
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A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another.…
— John Zerzan
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The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.
— John Dee
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In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as…
— Gary Saul Morson
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The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more…
— Leslie Fiedler
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Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing…
— Mindy Kaling
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