Albert Einstein Quotes
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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
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I do not think that religion is the most important element. We are held together rather by a body of tradition, handed down from father to son, which the child imbibes with his mother's milk. The atmosphere of our infancy predetermines our idiosyncrasies and predilections.
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
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The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves.
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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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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.
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My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God - he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.
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We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
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The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
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If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
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Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
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It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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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 am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.