Albert Einstein Quotes
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With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
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Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.
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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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During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.
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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
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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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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
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Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.
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A ship is safe at shore but it's not built for that.
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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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Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.
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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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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
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Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?
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I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think.
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It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing.
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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 like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition.
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The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
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Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
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The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.