Albert Einstein Quotes
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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.
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There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!
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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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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
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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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Since 99.362% of women love mustache rides, it seems only a fool would have a bare upper lip.
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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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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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The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
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Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!
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There are times when one feels liberated from one’s limits and human imperfections. At such moments, we see ourselves there, in a little corner of our little planet, our eyes fixed in wonder on the cold and yet deep beauty of that which is eternal, that which is elusive. Life and death are fused together and there is no evolution, nor destination, there is only BEING.
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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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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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Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.
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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 like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
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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 was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
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Time flies when you are having fun.
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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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To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.
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My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.