Albert Einstein Quotes
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Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
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Never before have I lived through a storm like the one this night. … The sea has a look of indescribable grandeur, especially when the sun falls on it. One feels as if one is dissolved and merged into Nature. Even more than usual, one feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
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Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.
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I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
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Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
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I am very smart. But not as strong-hearted as all the workers on earth for he toils endlessly and does it all to feed his family while I do it merely for solving an impossible puzzle.
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With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
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I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
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The best design is the simplest one that works.
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To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.
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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
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If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
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America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.
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I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.
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Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
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Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic.
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Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.