Albert Einstein Quotes
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Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
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Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.
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The strange thing about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost; one feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone, no longer in hope or fear, only observing.
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It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
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In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
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Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.
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Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.
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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
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My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
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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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We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
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The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
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Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving?
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The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality.
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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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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
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The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.
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Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.