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Individual Quotes by Albert Einstein
- Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is…
- I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic…
- In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as…
- Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.
- Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion…
- There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right,…
- I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as…
- Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?
- If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer:…
- There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are…
- Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
- All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
- The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
- It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
- I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in…
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding…
- The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
- The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
- The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such…
- The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life…
- The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it…
- Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities,…
- It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.
More Individual Quotes
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion -… — Michele Bachmann
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou