Albert Einstein Quotes
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I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.
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There is possibility in every difficulty.
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
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A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
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Where there is love, there is no imposition.
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If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes.
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Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
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Time is an illusion.
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The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
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Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?
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I now see the necessity of a beginning.
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Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhes Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries.
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The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.
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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries — not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized.
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The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.