Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
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Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.
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We must learn to see the world anew.
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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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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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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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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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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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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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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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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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Peace comes through understanding.
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Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
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Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.
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The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
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I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.
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It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
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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.