Albert Einstein Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
