Albert Einstein Quotes
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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
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The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.
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Peace comes through understanding.
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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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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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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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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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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.
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Common sense needs constant reappraisal.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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We must learn to see the world anew.
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Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
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Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego.
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The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
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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...
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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
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In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.
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I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.