Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
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The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery.
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All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.
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It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
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I have survived two wars, two wives and Hitler.
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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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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
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One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good.
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Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
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Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
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One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
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The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.
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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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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty.
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Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.
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I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
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Imagination is the highest form of research.
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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.