Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
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When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.
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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.
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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
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Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
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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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It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
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When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.
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I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
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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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Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
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I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am. This purpose is not given me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.
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The stupid are invincible.
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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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Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
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If a theory can not be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind - the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake - the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism - how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.
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You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
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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.