Albert Einstein Quotes
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It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
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I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.
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I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.
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You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.
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Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.
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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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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.
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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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A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler.
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Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.
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I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.
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That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.
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The longing to behold this pre-established harmony of phenomena and theoretical principles, is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ...
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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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An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human or animal mind.
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.
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I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
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The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
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Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. Albert Einstein