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From Quotes by Albert Einstein
- I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity…
- The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and…
- Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional…
- The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural…
- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry…
- There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of…
- Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle.…
- A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other…
- Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty,…
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices…
- It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry;…
- It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them…
- The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To…
- Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective…
- For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong…
- But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things…
- A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves…
- The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.
- Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete…
- I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in…
- My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and…
- The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has…
- How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he…
- Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose.…
- Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of…
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