Albert Einstein Quotes
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
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The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
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Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.
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No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake.
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
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I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.
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More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.
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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
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The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
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We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck.
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When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
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Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.
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An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.