Albert Einstein Quotes

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• The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was…
• This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated…
• I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to…
• I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
• It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.
• America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom…
• I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters…
• Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I…
• It's not that life has been easy, perfect or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all…
• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and…
• Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
• War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.
• In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security…
• The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is…
• One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have…
• If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
• I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however…
• Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
• The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
• Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the…

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