Albert Einstein Quotes
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It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.
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It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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You must be aware that most men, and also not only a few women, are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
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On quantum theory I use up more brain grease than on relativity.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.
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I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
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Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.
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I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
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The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can for me change this.
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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.
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One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
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It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
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Not all that counts, can be counted.
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When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
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The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.
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The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.
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It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.