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But Without Deeper Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People--first Of All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Is Wholly Dependent, And Then For The Many, Unknown To Us, To Whose Destinies We Are Bound By The Ties Of Sympathy.

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But Without Deeper Reflection

Albert Einstein

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But Without Deeper Reflection One Knows From Daily Life That One Exists For Other People--first Of All For Those Upon Whose Smiles And Well-being Our Own Happiness Is Wholly Dependent, And Then For The Many, Unknown To Us, To Whose Destinies We Are Bound By The Ties Of Sympathy.

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Never Memorize Something That You Can Look Up.

Scientific Greatness Is Less A Matter Of Intelligence Than Character; If The Scientist Refuses To Compromise Or Accept Incomplete Answers And Persists In Grappling The Most Basic And Difficult Questions.

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The Music Of Mozart Is Of Such Purity And Beauty That One Feels He Merely Found It - That It Has Always Existed As Part Of The Inner Beauty Of The Universe Waiting To Be Revealed.

The Emotional State That Leads To Achievements Resembles That Of A Worshiper Or The Lover.

Politics Is Far More Complicated Than Physics.

When I Study Philosophical Works I Feel I Am Swallowing Something Which I Don't Have In My Mouth.

I Have Always Eaten Animal Flesh With A Somewhat Guilty Conscience.

I Have To Apologize To You That I Am Still Among The Living. There Will Be A Remedy For This, However.

I Believe, Indeed, That Overemphasis On The Purely Intellectual Attitude, Often Directed Solely To The Practical And Factual, In Our Education, Has Led Directly To The Impairment Of Ethical Values.

I Want To Know How God Created This World. I Am Not Interested In This Or That Phenomenon, In The Spectrum Of This Or That Element. I Want To Know God's Thoughts, The Rest Are Details.

I Advocate World Government Because I Am Convinced That There Is No Other Possible Way Of Eliminating The Most Terrible Danger In Which Man Has Ever Found Himself. The Objective Of Avoiding Total Destruction Must Have Priority Over Any Other Objective.

Most People See What Is, And Never See What Can Be.

The World Will Not Evolve Past Its Current State Of Crisis By Using The Same Thinking That Created The Situation.

Even If Only 2 Percent Of Those Assigned To Perform Military Service Should Announce Their Refusal To Fight, Governments Would Be Powerless, They Would Not Dare Send Such A Large Number Of People To Jail.

Live Your Life... As Though Everything Is A Miracle.

To Have Security Against Atomic Bombs And Against The Other Biological Weapons, We Have To Prevent War, For If We Cannot Prevent War Every Nation Will Use Every Means That Is At Their Disposal; And In Spite Of All Promises They Make, They Will Do It. At The Same Time, So Long As War Is Not Prevented, All The Governments Of The Nations Have To Prepare For War, And If You Have To Prepare For War, Then You Are In A State Where You Cannot Abolish War.

One Feels The Insignificance Of The Individual, And It Makes One Happy.

I Take It To Be True That Pure Thought Can Grasp The Real, As The Ancients Had Dreamed.

Don't Think About Why You Question, Simply Don't Stop Questioning. Don't Worry About What You Can't Answer, And Don't Try To Explain What You Can't Know. Curiosity Is Its Own Reason. Aren't You In Awe When You Contemplate The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Behind Reality? And This Is The Miracle Of The Human Mind - To Use Its Constructions, Concepts, And Formulas As Tools To Explain What Man Sees, Feels And Touches. Try To Comprehend A Little More Each Day. Have Holy Curiosity.

If The Bees Disappear, Man Would Have Only Four Years Of Life Left.

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.

What Artistic And Scientific Experience Have In Common - Where The World Ceases To Be The Scene Of Our Personal Hopes And Wishes, Where We Face It As Free Beings Admiring, Asking, And Observing, There We Enter The Realm Of Art And Science. If What Is Seen And Experienced Is Portrayed In The Language Of Logic, We Are Engaged In Science. If It Is Communicated Through Forms Whose Connections Are Not Accessible To The Conscious Mind But Are Recognized Intuitively As Meaninful, Then We Are Engaged In Art. Common To Both Is The Loving Devotion To That Which Transcends Personal Concerns And Volition.

Nothing Will End War Unless The Peoples Themselves Refuse To Go To War.

Brief Is This Existence, As A Visit In A Strange House. The Path To Be Pursued Is Poorly Lit By A Flickering Consciousness.

The Power Of Imagination Is The Ultimate Creative Power.. No Doubt About That. While Knowledge Defines All We Currently Know And Understand.. Imagination Points To All We Might Yet Discover And Create. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Your Imagination Is Your Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions

Without "ethical Culture", There Is No Salvation For Humanity.

I Never Think Of The Future. It Comes Soon Enough. When Visiting The U.s. From Germany For A Winter Academic Stay.

If One Studies Too Zealously, One Easily Loses His Pants.

If I Had An Hour To Solve A Problem I'd Spend 55 Minutes Thinking About The Problem And 5 Minutes Thinking About Solutions.

In Any Conflict Between Humanity And Technology, Humanity Will Win.

I Want To Go When I Want. It Is Tasteless To Prolong Life Artificially. I Have Done My Share, It Is Time To Go. I Will Do It Elegantly.

The Pursuit Of Truth And Beauty Is A Sphere Of Activity In Which We Are Permitted To Remain Children All Our Lives.

There Are Actually Two Approaches To Reside Your Daily Life. One Is As If Absolutely Nothing Is Really A Miracle. The Other Is As If Every Little Thing Is A Wonder

If The Believers Of The Present-day Religions Would Earnestly Try To Think And Act In The Spirit Of The Founders Of These Religions Then No Hostility On The Basis Of Religion Would Exist Among The Followers Of The Different Faiths. Even The Conflicts And The Realm Of Religion Would Be Exposed As Insignificant.

There Could Be No Greater Calamity Than A Permanent Discord Between Us And The Arab People. Despite The Great Wrong That Has Been Done Us, We Must Strive For A Just And Lasting Compromise With The Arab People Let Us Recall That In Former Times No People Lived In Greater Friendship With Us Than The Ancestors Of These Arabs.

Betterment Of Conditions The World Over Is Not Essentially Dependent On Scientific Knowledge But On The Fulfillment Of Human Traditions And Ideals.

Mere Unbelief In A Personal God Is No Philosophy At All.

I Would Absolutely Refuse Any Direct Or Indirect War Service And Would Try To Persuade My Friends To Do The Same, Regardless Of The Reasons For The Cause Of A War.

Do You Believe In Immortality? No, And One Life Is Enough For Me.

Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It.

You Do Not Really Understand Something Unless You Can Explain It To Your Grandmother.

We Must Not Conceal From Ourselves That No Improvement In The Present Depressing Situation Is Possible Without A Severe Struggle; For The Handful Of Those Who Are Really Determined To Do Something Is Minute In Comparison With The Mass Of The Lukewarm And The Misguided. And Those Who Have An Interest In Keeping The Machinery Of War Going Are A Very Powerful Body; They Will Stop At Nothing To Make Public Opinion Subservient To Their Murderous Ends.

Without The Sense Of Fellowship With Men Of Like Mind, Of Preoccupation With The Objective, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Research, Life Would Have Seemed To Me Empty.

What I Value In Life Is Quality Rather Then Quantity.

We Must Remember That We Do Not Observe Nature As It Actually Exists, But Nature Exposed To Our Methods Of Perception. The Theories Determine What We Can Or Cannot Observe...reality Is An Illusion, Albeit A Persistent One.

There Is Possibility In Every Difficulty.

It Is Important For The Common Good To Foster Individuality: For Only The Individual Can Produce The New Ideas Which The Community Needs For Its Continuous Improvement And Requirements - Indeed, To Avoid Sterility And Petrification

Real Sign Of Intelligence Isn't Knoweldge, It's Imagination

If The Rabble Continues To Occupy Itself With You, Then Simply Don't Read That Hogwash, But Rather Leave It For The Reptile From Whom It Has Been Fabricated.

The Normal Objective Of My Thought Affords No Insight Into The Dark Places Of Human Will And Feeling.

I Believe That Gandhi’s Views Were The Most Enlightened Of All The Political Men In Our Time. We Should Strive To Do Things In His Spirit: Not To Use Violence In Fighting For Our Cause, But By Non-participation In Anything You Believe Is Evil.

A Thought That Sometimes Makes Me Hazy: Am I - Or Are The Others Crazy?

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I Appeal To All Men And Women, Whether They Be Eminent Or Humble, To Declare That They Will Refuse To Give Any Further Assistance To War Or The Preparation Of War.

O, Youth: Do You Know That Yours Is Not The First Generation To Yearn For A Life Full Of Beauty And Freedom?

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If Only I Had Known, I Should Have Become A Watchmaker.

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If You Want Different Results, Do Not Do The Same Things.

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I Cannot Write In English, Because Of The Treacherous Spelling. When I Am Reading, I Only Hear It And Am Unable To Remember What The Written Word Looks Like.

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Many A Young Lady Does Not Realize Just How Strong Her Love For A Young Man Is Until He Fails To Pass The Approval Test With Her Parents. There Is No Fear In Love; But Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear. Of All Forms Of Caution, Caution In Love Is The Most Fatal. There Are Only Two Truly Infinite Things, The Universe And Stupidity. And I Am Unsure About The Universe.

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Non-cooperation In Military Matters Should Be An Essential Moral Principle For All True Scientists.

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.

Out Of The Clutter Find Simplicity

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It Would Be Possible To Describe Everything Scientifically, But It Would Make No Sense; It Would Be Without Meaning, As If You Described A Beethoven Symphony As A Variation Of Wave Pressure.

Galileo - The Father Of Modern Physics - Indeed Of Modern Science.

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.

A Theory Is The More Impressive The Greater The Simplicity Of Its Premises Is, The More Different Kinds Of Things It Relates, And The More Extended Its Area Of Applicability.

My Passionate Sense Of Social Justice And Social Responsibility Has Always Contrasted Oddly With My Pronounced Lack Of Need For Direct Contact With Other Human Beings And Human Communities. I Am Truly A 'lone Traveler' And Have Never Belonged To My Country, My Home, My Friends, Or Even My Immediate Family, With My Whole Heart; In The Face Of All These Ties, I Have Never Lost A Sense Of Distance And A Need For Solitude.

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The Significant Problems We Have Cannot Be Solved At The Same Level Of Thinking With Which We Created Them.

There Is No Vaccine Against Stupidity.

When I Was Young, All I Wanted And Expected From Life Was To Sit Quietly In Some Corner Doing My Work Without The Public Paying Attention To Me. And Now See What Has Become Of Me.

Often In Evolutionary Processes A Species Must Adapt To New Conditions In Order To Survive. Today The Atomic Bomb Has Altered Profoundly The Nature Of The World As We Know It, And The Human Race Consequently Finds Itself In A New Habitat To Which It Must Adapt Its Thinking.

There Is No Greater Satisfaction For A Just And Well-meaning Person Than The Knowledge That He Has Devoted His Best Energies To The Service Of The Good Cause.

If God Has Created The World, His Primary Worry Was Certainly Not To Make Its Understanding Easy For Us

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Human Beings Can Attain A Worthy And Harmonious Life Only If They Are Able To Rid Themselves, Within The Limits Of Human Nature, Of The Striving For The Wish Fulfillment Of Material Kinds. The Goal Is To Raise The Spiritual Values Of Society.

Those Who Staying With The Wrong Reward,(eg. Stay In Comfort Zone, Etc.), Long Enough Will Get Problem.

A Man Has To Work So Hard So That Something Of His Personality Stays Alive. A Tomcat Has It So Easy, He Has Only To Spray And His Presence Is There For Years On Rainy Days.

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I Should Much Rather See A Reasonable Agreement With Arabs Based Upon Living Together Than The Creation Of A Jewish State.

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Relativity Is A Purely Scientific Matter And Has Nothing To Do With Religion.

I Now See The Necessity Of A Beginning.

The State Was Made For Man, Not Man For State.

If I Can't Picture It, I Can't Understand It.

It Is Important To Foster Individuality, For Only The Individual Can Produce The New Ideas.

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For The Moral Attitudes Of A People That Is Supported By Religion Need Always Aim At Preserving And Promoting The Sanity And Vitality Of The Community And Its Individuals, Since Otherwise This Community Is Bound To Perish. A People That Were To Honour Falsehood, Defamation, Fraud, And Murder Would Be Unable, Indeed, To Subsist For Very Long.

You Cannot Simultaneously Prevent And Prepare For War. The Very Prevention Of War Requires More Faith, Courage And Resolution Than Are Needed To Prepare For War. We Must All Do Our Share, That We May Be Equal To The Task Of Peace.

If A Theory Can Not Be Explained To A Child, Then The Theory Is Probably Worthless.

Older Men Start Wars, But Younger Men Fight Them.

The Place Of The Expert Is On Tap Not On Top.

Problems Cannot Be Solved By Thinking Within The Framework In Which The Problems Were Created.

My Sailing System Set Sail, Make It Fast, No Thoughts Of Energy Or Velocity, Loll Back, Let Boat Drift.

I Am Strongly Drawn To A Frugal Life And Am Often Oppressively Aware That I Am Engrossing An Undue Amount Of The Labor Of My Fellow Men.

Live With Purpose. Don't Let People Or Things Around You Get You Down.

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Thinking Is To Man What Flying Is To Birds. Don’t Follow The Example Of A Chicken When You Could Be A Lark.

Life Is A Mystery, Not A Problem Waiting To Be Solved.

Stupidity Is A Personal Achievement Which Transcends National Boundaries.

I Asked Myself Childish Questions And Proceeded To Answer Them.

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A Clever Person Solves A Problem. A Wise Person Avoids It.

I Cannot Accept Any Concept Of God Based On The Fear Of Life Or The Fear Of Death, Or Blind Faith. I Cannot Prove To You That There Is No Personal God, But If I Were To Speak Of Him I Would Be A Liar.

Your Fervent Wishes Can Only Find Fulfillment If You Succeed In Attaining Love And Understanding Of Men, And Animals, And Plants, And Stars, So That Every Joy Becomes Your Joy And Every Pain Your Pain.

An Autocratic System Of Coercion, In My Opinion, Soon Degenerates. For Force Always Attracts Men Of Low Morality, And I Believe It To Be An Invariable Rule That Tyrants Of Genius Are Succeeded By Scoundrels. For This Reason I Have Always Been Passionately Opposed To Systems Such As We See In Italy And Russia To-day.

Let Me Tell You What I Look Like: Pale Face, Long Hair, And A Tiny Start Of A Paunch. In Addition, An Awkward Gait, And A Cigar In The Mouth And A Pen In Pocket Or Hand.

The Only Justification For Our Concepts And Systems Of Concepts Is That They Serve To Represent The Complex Of Our Experiences; Beyond This They Have Not Legitimacy.

Once We Accept Our Limits, We Go Beyond Them.

The Most Aggravating Thing About The Younger Generation Is That I No Longer Belong To It.

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If There Is No Price To Be Paid, It Is Also Not Of Value.

Generations To Come Will Find It Difficult To Believe That A Man Such As Gandhi Ever Walked The Face Of This Earth.

One Thing I Have Learned In A Long Life: That All Our Science, Measured Against Reality, Is Primitive And Childlike -- And Yet It Is The Most Precious Thing We Have.

I Have No Special Talent. I Am Only Passionately Curious. The Important Thing Is To Not Stop Questioning. Curiousity Has Its Own Reason For Existing.

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Paper Is To Write Things Down That We Need To Remember. Our Brains Are Used To Think.

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You Can Never Solve A Problem On The Level On Which It Was Created. Insanity: Doing The Same Thing Over And Over Again And Expecting Different Results. A Life Lived For Others Is A Life Worthwhile.

If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self... So The Hell With It... I Will Continue To Be Unconcerned About It, Which Surely Has The Advantage That I'm Left In Peace By Many A Fop Who Would Otherwise Come To See Me.

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If There Is Any Religion That Could Respond To The Needs Of Modern Science, It Would Be Buddhism.

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Vegetarian Diet

Compassionate People Are Geniuses In The Art Of Living, More Necessary To The Dignity, Security, And Joy Of Humanity Than The Discoverers Of Knowledge.

It Occurred To Me By Intuition, And Music Was The Driving Force Behind That Intuition. My Discovery Was The Result Of Musical Perception.

The Creative Principle [of Science] Resides In Mathematics.

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.

... It Is A Welcome Symptom In An Age Which Is Commonly Denounced As Materialistic, That It Makes Heroes Of Men Whose Goals Lie Wholly In The Intellectual And Moral Sphere.

Creativity Is Intelligence Having Fun.

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I Have No Extraordinary Ability. I'm Simply An Inquisitive Individual.

Your Ancestors Dragged These Black People From Their Homes By Force; And In The White Man's Quest For Wealth And An Easy Life They Have Been Ruthlessly Suppressed And Exploited, Degraded Into Slavery. The Modern Prejudice Against Negroes Is The Result Of The Desire To Maintain This Unworthy Condition.

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In Matters Of Truth And Justice, There Is No Difference Between Large And Small Problems, For Issues Concerning The Treatment Of People Are All The Same.

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What I Seek To Accomplish Is Simply To Serve With My Feeble Capacity Truth And Justice, At The Risk Of Pleasing No One.

We Are All Life Trying To Live, Among Other Life Trying To Live.

The Development Of General Ability For Independent Thinking And Judgment Should Always Be Placed Foremost, Not The Acquisition Of Special Knowledge.

The World We Have Created Is A Product Of Our Thinking.

God Has Given Me A Mule-like Stubbornness To Stick With A Difficult Problem And The Intuitive Powers To Conceptualize Complex Hypothetical Situations In My Mind.

Great Spirits Have Always Encountered Opposition From Mediocre Minds. The Mediocre Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding The Man Who Refuses To Bow Blindly To Conventional Prejudices And Chooses Instead To Express His Opinions Courageously And Honestly.

Not All Things Worth Counting Are Countable And Not All Things That Count Are Worth Counting.

When I Examine Myself And My Methods Of Thought, I Come To The Conclusion That The Gift Of Fantasy Has Meant More To Me Than Any Talent For Abstract, Positive Knowledge.

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.

I Believe In Intuition And Inspiration. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. For Knowledge Is Limited, Whereas Imagination Embraces The Entire World, Stimulating Progress, Giving Birth To Evolution. It Is, Strictly Speaking, A Real Factor In Scientific Research.

Every Kind Of Peaceful Cooperation Among Men Is Primarily Based On Mutual Trust And Only Secondarily On Institutions Such As Courts Of Justice And Police.

Physical Concepts Are Free Creations Of The Human Mind, And Are Not, However It May Seem, Uniquely Determined By The External World.

Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Forces Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creations.

Evil Does Not Exist Sir, Or At Least It Does Not Exist Unto Itself. Evil Is Simply The Absence Of God. It Is Just Like Darkness And Cold, A Word That Man Has Created To Describe The Absence Of God. God Did Not Create Evil. Evil Is Not Like Faith, Or Love That Exist Just As Does Light And Heat. Evil Is The Result Of What Happens When Man Does Not Have God's Love Present In His Heart. It's Like The Cold That Comes When There Is No Heat Or The Darkness That Comes When There Is No Light.

The Most Important Human Endeavor Is The Striving For Morality In Our Actions.

If You Cannot Explain It Simply, You Do Not Understand It Enough.

We Are Slowed Down Sound And Light Waves, A Walking Bundle Of Frequencies Tuned Into The Cosmos. We Are Souls Dressed Up In Sacred Biochemical Garments And Our Bodies Are The Instruments Through Which Our Souls Play Their Music.

The Concept Of Marriage Must Have Been Thought Up By An Unimaginative Pig.

...and Knowledge Is One Of The Finest Attributes Of Man - Though Often It Is Most Loudly Voiced By Those Who Strive For It The Least.

What I'm Really Interested In Is Whether God Could Have Made The World In A Different Way; That Is, Whether The Necessity Of Logical Simplicity Leaves Any Freedom At All.

The American Lives Even More For His Goals, For The Future, Than The European. Life For Him Is Always Becoming, Never Being.

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There Comes A Time When The Mind Takes A Higher Plane Of Knowledge But Can Never Prove How It Got There.

America Is A Democracy And Has No Hitler, But I Am Afraid For Her Future; There Are Hard Times Ahead For The American People, Troubles Will Be Coming From Within And Without. America Cannot Smile Away Their Negro Problem Nor Hiroshima And Nagasaki. There Are Cosmic Laws.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki

Man, Surrounded By Facts, Permitting Himself No Surprise, No Intuitive Flash, No Great Hypothesis, No Risk, Is In A Locked Cell. Ignorance Cannot Seal The Mind And Imagination More Securely.

All Meaningful And Lasting Change Starts First In Your Imagination And Then Works Its Way Out. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

I Want To Gods Thoughts, The Rest Are Details.

I Am A Determinist. As Such, I Do Not Believe In Free Will...practically, I Am, Nevertheless, Compelled To Act As If Freedom Of The Will Existed. If I Wish To Live In A Civilized Community, I Must Act As If Man Is A Responsible Being.

The Intellect Has Little To Do On The Road To Discovery. There Comes A Leap In Consciousness, Call It Intuition Or What You Will, The Solution Comes To You And You Don't Know How Or Why.

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.

In Order To Be An Immaculate Member Of A Flock Of Sheep, One Must Above All Be A Sheep Oneself.

Nature Conceals Her Secrets Because She Is Sublime, Not Because She Is A Trickster.

He Who Finds Though That Lets Us Penetrate Even A Little Deeper Into The Eternal Mystery Of Nature Has Been Granted Great Grace. He Who, In Addition, Experiences The Recognition, Sympathy, And Help Of The Best Minds Of His Times, Had Been Given Almost More Happiness Than One Man Can Bear.

You Believe In A God That Plays Dice; I Believe In Law & Order.

Almost All The Other Fellows Do Not Look From The Facts To The Theory But From The Theory To The Facts; They Cannot Get Out Of The Network Of Already Accepted Concepts; Instead, Comically, They Only Wriggle About Inside.

We Cannot Solve Our Problems With The Same Thinking We Used When We Created Them.

Men Like Henry George [ The Pioneer Of Land Value Taxation] Are Rare, Unfortunately. One Cannot Imagine A More Beautiful Combination Of Intellectual Keenness, Artistic Form, And Fervent Love Of Justice.

Our Entire Much-praised Technological Progress, And Civilization Generally, Could Be Compared To An Axe In The Hand Of A Pathological Criminal.

One Lives One's Life Under Constant Tension, Until It's Time To Go For Good

Most People Go On Living Their Everyday Life: Half-frightened, Half Indifferent, They Behold The Ghostly Tragic-comedy That Is Being Performed On The International Stage Before The Eyes And Ears Of The World.

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