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Man Quotes by Albert Einstein
- A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
- The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
- All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
- It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
- The man of science is a poor philosopher.
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain…
- Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams…
- I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
- It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some…
- Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in…
- What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means…
- It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
- I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will…
- Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.…
- Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
- I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary…
- A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be…
- The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's…
- Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit…
- Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot
- Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause…
- It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
- A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
- 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…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle