Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
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While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.
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The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state.
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A true genius admits that he knows nothing.
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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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I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
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In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity .
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The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.
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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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It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.
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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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What we don't know is much more than what we know.
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I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet.
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You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...
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The heart says yes, but the mind says no.
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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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One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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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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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.
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Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.
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An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.