"To make a goal of comfort or happiness……" — Albert Einstein
"To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle"
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1,698 Quotes by Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein has 1,698 quotes on this site.
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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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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character…
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,…
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the…
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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever…
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He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal,…
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There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not…
— Geoff Nicholson
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The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to…
— William Rawle
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Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best…
— Peter Kropotkin
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I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative…
— James Madison
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Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
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