Albert Einstein Quotes
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Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
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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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We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tradition and emotional factors are equally important. If this were not the case, Europe would today be a federated state, not a madhouse of nationalism.
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If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
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Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.
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Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
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I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
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There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
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It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.
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We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
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The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
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How insidious Nature is when one is trying to get at it experimentally.
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It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.
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Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
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The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
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We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.