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Religious Quotes by Albert Einstein
- I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters…
- The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion…
- Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same…
- Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action…
- I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
- The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.
- I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The…
- What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
- .. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There…
- If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly…
- But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the…
- But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs…
- As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
- While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility…
- For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the…
- Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
- The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.
- The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the…
- e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual…
- I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in…
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- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
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