Albert Einstein Quotes

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• School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to…
• Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but…
• So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was…
• Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
• This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
• Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
• God is clever, but not dishonest.
• To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is…
• Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or…
• Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
• It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's…
• The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
• The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.
• Strange is our situation here upon earth.
• The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The…
• Intelligence and genius
• Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
• It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.
• One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
• The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's…

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