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Men Quotes by Albert Einstein
- During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed…
- I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
- The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.
- "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free…
- If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist…
- Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends.…
- If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it…
- 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…
- 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…
- Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
- I admire Goethe as one of the smartest and wisest men of all time
- Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
- One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with it's painful crudity and hopeless dreariness
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