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Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of Their Conception Of God. In General, Only Individuals Of Exceptional Endowments, And Exceptionally High-minded Communities, Rise To Any Considerable Extent Above This Level. But There Is A Third Stage Of Religious Experience Which Belongs To All Of Them, Even Though It Is Rarely Found In A Pure Form: I Shall Call It Cosmic Religious Feeling. It Is Very Difficult To Elucidate This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It.

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Common To All These Types Is The Anthropomorphic Character Of Their Conception Of God. In General, Only Individuals Of Exceptional Endowments, And Exceptionally High-minded Communities, Rise To Any Considerable Extent Above This Level. But There Is A Third Stage Of Religious Experience Which Belongs To All Of Them, Even Though It Is Rarely Found In A Pure Form: I Shall Call It Cosmic Religious Feeling. It Is Very Difficult To Elucidate This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It.

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Only Morality In Our Actions Can Give Beauty And Dignity To Life.

Ethics And Morals

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Pablo Casals Is A Very Great Artist. What I Admire Is The Firm Stand He Has Taken Not Only Against The Oppressors Of His Countrymen, But Also Against Those Opportunists Who Are Always Ready To Compromise With The Devil. He Perceives Clearly That The World Is In Greater Peril From Those Who Tolerate Or Encourage Evil Than From Those Who Actually Commit It.

Thus I Came...to A Deep Religiosity, Which, However, Reached An Abrupt End At The Age Of 12. Through The Reading Of Popular Scientific Books I Soon Reached A Conviction That Much In The Stories Of The Bible Could Not Be True....suspicion Against Every Kind Of Authority Grew Out Of This Experience...an Attitude Which Has Never Left Me.

For The Most Part We Humans Live With The False Impression Of Security And A Feeling Of Being At Home In A Seemingly Familiar And Trustworthily Physical And Human Environment. But When The Expected Course Of Everyday Life Is Interrupted, We Realize That We Are Like Shipwrecked People Trying To Keep Their Balance On A Miserable Plank In The Open Sea, Having Forgotten Where They Came From And Not Knowing Whether They Are Drifting. But Once We Fully Accept This, Life Becomes Easier And There Is No Longer Any Disappointment.

If I Would Follow Your Advice And Jesus Could Perceive It, He, As A Jewish Teacher, Surely Would Not Approve Of Such Behavior.

No Fairer Destiny Could Be Allotted To Any Physical Theory Than That It Should Of Itself Point Out The Way To The Introduction Of A More Comprehensive Theory, In Which It Lives On As A Limiting Case.

The Only Justifiable Purpose Of Political Institutions Is To Ensure The Unhindered Development Of The Individual.

About Newton: Nature To Him Was An Open Book, Whose Letters He Could Read Without Effort.

I Never Commit To Memory Anything That Can Easily Be Looked Up In A Book

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.

When A Man Points A Finger At Someone Else, He Should Remember That Three Of His Fingers Are Pointing At Himself. Do Not Worry About Your Difficulties In Mathematics; I Can Assure You That Mine Are Still Greater.

Out Of Clutter, Find Simplicity.

What I See In Nature Is A Magnificent Structure That We Can Comprehend Only Very Imperfectly, And That Must Fill A Thinking Person With A Feeling Of Humility. This Is A Genuinely Religious Feeling That Has Nothing To Do With Mysticism.

Generations To Come Will Scarce Believe That Such A One As This Ever In Flesh And Blood Walked Upon This Earth. (said Of Mahatma Gandhi)

Einstein Didn't Speak Until He Was Four, Leading Most Of His Teachers To Believe He Was Crazy. That Is Until He Whipped Out The Theory Of Relativity. Bayum! Showed You Guys.

I Have Repeatedly Said That In My Opinion The Idea Of A Personal God Is A Childlike One.

Only A Life Lived For Others Is A Life Worth While . I Have No Special Gift. I Am Only Passionately Curious . I Want To Know God's Thoughts... All The Rest Are Details. Joy In Looking And Comprehending Is Nature's Most Beautiful Gift. It's Not That I'm So Smart , It's Just That I Stay With Problems Longer.

Even Trivial Events Demonstrate Strong Devotion To The Universe And Small Concern For Ego.

Creating A New Theory Is Not Like Destroying An Old Barn And Erecting A Skyscraper In Its Place. It Is Rather Like Climbing A Mountain And Gaining New And Wider Views.

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

I Know What It's Like To See One's Mother Go Through The Agony Of Death And Be Unable To Help; There Is No Consolation. We All Have To Bear Such Heavy Burdens, For They Are Unalterably Linked To Life.

But The Creative Principle Resides In Mathematics. In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.

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Intelligence Makes Clear To Us The Interrelationship Of Means And Ends. But Mere Thinking Cannot Give Us A Sense Of The Ultimate And Fundamental Ends. To Make Clear These Fundamental Ends And Valuations And To Set Them Fast In The Emotional Life Of The Individual, Seems To Me Precisely The Most Important Function Which Religion Has To Form In The Social Life Of Man.

Weakness Of Attitude Becomes Weakness Of Character; It Becomes Lack Of Power To Act With Courage Proportionate To Danger. All This Must Lead To The Destruction Of Our Intellectual Life Unless The Danger Summons Up Strong Personalities Able To Fill The Lukewarm And Discouraged With New Strength And Resolution.

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun.

Although I Cannot Believe That The Individual Survives The Death Of His Body, Feeble Souls Harbor Such Thought Through Fear Or Ridiculous Egotism.

I Make It A Rule Not To Clutter My Mind With Simple Information That I Can Find In A Book In Five Minutes.

Out Of Complexity, Find Simplicity!

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