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From Quotes by Albert Einstein
- As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a…
- It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that…
- From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
- There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of…
- All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere…
- If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle:…
- The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove…
- One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
- I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
- I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.
- The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields…
- Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
- The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.…
- Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?…
- Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
- I have yet to meet a single person from our culture, no matter what his or her educational background, IQ, and specific training, who had…
- In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or…
- The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity…
- Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
- It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life,…
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