Albert Einstein Quotes
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Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
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Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.
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The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.
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To think with fear of the end of one's life is pretty general with human beings. It is one of the means nature uses to conserve the life of the species. Approached rationally that fear is the most unjustified of all fears, for there is no risk of any accidents to one who is dead or not yet born. In short, the fear is stupid but it cannot be helped.
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He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss.
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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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When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.
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The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
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Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.
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Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.
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Matter is Energy ... Energy is Light ... We are all Light Beings.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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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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Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.
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We must learn to see the world anew.
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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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It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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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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I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...