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Everything That The Human Race Has Done And Thought Is Concerned With The Satisfaction Of Deeply Felt Needs And The Assuagement Of Pain. One Has To Keep This Constantly In Mind If One Wishes To Understand Spiritual Movements And Their Development. Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Force Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creation, In However Exalted A Guise The Latter May Present Themselves To Us.

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Albert Einstein

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Everything That The Human Race Has Done And Thought Is Concerned With The Satisfaction Of Deeply Felt Needs And The Assuagement Of Pain. One Has To Keep This Constantly In Mind If One Wishes To Understand Spiritual Movements And Their Development. Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Force Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creation, In However Exalted A Guise The Latter May Present Themselves To Us.

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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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He Who Cherishes The Value Of Cultures Cannot Fail To Be A Pacifist.

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Nature Conceals Her Mystery By Her Essential Grandeur.

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Only The Catholic Church Protested Against The Hitlerian Onslaught On Liberty. Up Till Then I Had Not Been Interested In The Church, But Today I Feel A Great Admiration For The Church, Which Alone Has Had The Courage To Struggle For Spiritual Truth And Moral Liberty

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[there Is] A Duty In Refusing To Cooperate In Any Undertaking That Violates The Constitutional Rights Of The Individual. This Holds In Particular For All Inquisitions That Are Concerned With The Private Life And The Political Affiliations Of The Citizens.

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I Asked Myself Childish Questions And Proceeded To Answer Them.

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The Economists Will Have To Revise Their Theories Of Value.

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Never Do Anything Against Conscience Even If The State Demands It.

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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.

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Good Acts Are Like Good Poems. One May Easily Get Their Drift, But They Are Not Rationally Understood.

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One Has A Feeling That One Has A Kind Of Home In This Timeless Community Of Human Beings That Strive For Truth. ... I Have Always Believed That Jesus Meant By The Kingdom Of God The Small Group Scattered All Through Time Of Intellectually And Ethically Valuable People.

When U Knw Ur Limits U Go Byond Them

He Who Has Never Been Deceived By A Lie Does Not Know The Meaning Of Bliss.

No Amount Of Experimentation Can Ever Prove Me Right; A Single Experiment Can Prove Me Wrong.

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We Know Nothing At All. All Our Knowledge Is But The Knowledge Of Schoolchildren. The Real Nature Of Things We Shall Never Know.

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The World We Have Made As A Result Of The Level Of Thinking We Have Done Thus Far Creates Problems That We Cannot Solve At The Same Level At Which We Have Created Them.... We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Humankind Is To Survive.

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Theoretical Physics

Man Has An Intense Desire For Assured Knowledge.

Concern For Man And His Fate Must Always Form The Chief Interest Of All Technical Endeavors. Never Forget This In The Midst Of Your Diagrams And Equations.

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Everything Has Changed Except The Way Man Thinks (when The Hydrogen Bomb Was Exploded)

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The Word God Is For Me Nothing More Than The Expression And Product Of Human Weaknesses.

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All Conditions And All Circumstances In Our Lives Are A Result Of A Certain Level Of Thinking. If We Want To Change The Conditions And Circumstances, We Have To Change The Level Of Thinking That Is Responsible For It.

Manager Solves Problems, Leader Prevents Them.

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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.

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Education Is What Is Left After You've Forgotten Everything You've Learned.

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

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.

Nationalism, On My Opinion, Is Nothing More Than An Idealistic Rationalization For Militarism And Aggression.

I Have Second Thoughts. Maybe God Is Malicious. Told To Valentine Bargmann.

Second Thoughts

The Sceptic Will Say, 'it May Well Be True That This System Of Equations Is Reasonable From A Logical Standpoint, But This Does Not Prove That It Corresponds To Nature.' You Are Right, Dear Sceptic. Experience Alone Can Decide On Truth.

What I Value In Life Is Quality Rather Then Quantity.

The Value Of A Man Resides In What He Gives

Giving Not Receiving

Since Others Have Explained My Theory, I Can No Longer Understand It Myself.

No Worthy Problem Is Ever Solved Within The Plane Of Its Original Conception.

Energy Cannot Be Created Or Destroyed, It Can Only Be Changed From One Form To Another.

The Scientist Is Activated By A Wonder And Awe Before The Mysterious Comprehensibility Of The Universe Which Is Yet Finally Beyond His Grasp. In Its Profoundest Depths It Is Inaccessible To Man.

It May Be Possible To Fight Intolerance, Stupidity, And Fanaticism Seperately, But When They Come Together There Is No Hope.

It Followed From The Special Theory Of Relativity That Mass And Energy Are Both But Different Manifestations Of The Same Thing - A Somewhat Unfamiliar Conception For The Average Mind. Furthermore, The Equation E = Mc², In Which Energy Is Put Equal To Mass, Multiplied By The Square Of The Velocity Of Light, Showed That Very Small Amounts Of Mass May Be Converted Into A Very Large Amount Of Energy And Vice Versa.

The Gift Of Fantasy Has Meant More To Me Than My Talent For Absorbing Positive Knowledge.

It Was, Of Course, A Lie What You Read About My Religious Convictions, A Lie Which Is Being Systematically Repeated. I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly. If Something Is In Me Which Can Be Called Religious Then It Is The Unbounded Admiration For The Structure Of The World So Far As Our Science Can Reveal It.

Knowledge Is Realizing That The Street Is One Way; Wisdom Is Looking In Both Directions Anyway.

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.

Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe And Human Stupidity, And I'm Not Sure About The Former.

It Is A Magnificent Feeling To Recognize The Unity Of Complex Phenomena Which Appear To Be Things Quite Apart From The Direct Visible Truth.

The Attempt To Combine Wisdom And Power Has Only Rarely Been Successful And Then Only For A Short While.

This Is A Question Too Difficult For A Mathematician. It Should Be Asked Of A Philosopher"(when Asked About Completing His Income Tax Form)

From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That We Are Here For The Sake Of Each Other.

The World Is In Greater Peril From Those Who Tolerate Or Encourage Evil Than From Those Who Actually Commit It.

Education Is Only A Ladder To Gather Fruit From The Tree Of Knowledge, Not The Fruit Itself

Don't Let The Measurable Drive Out The Relevant

I Regard Class Differences As Contrary To Justice And, In The Last Resort, Based On Force.

With All My Heart I Believe That The World's Present System Of Sovereign Nations Can Only Lead To Barbarism, War And Inhumanity, And That Only World Law Can Assure Progress Towards A Civilized Peaceful Community.

The Stakes Are Immense, The Task Colossal, The Time Is Short. But We May Hope - We Must Hope - That Man's Own Creation, Man's Own Genius, Will Not Destroy Him.

Condemnation Without Investigation Is The Height Of Ignorance

The True Measure Of A Man Is The Degree To Which He Has Managed To Subjugate His Ego.

As An Elderly Man, I Have Remained Estranged From The Society Here.

Joy And Amazement Of The Beauty And Grandeur Of This World Of Which Man Can Just Form A Faint Notion.

The Fear Of Death Is The Most Unjustified Of All Fears, For There's No Risk Of Accident For Someone Who's Dead.

Intelligence Is Not The Ability To Store Information, But To Know Where To Find It.

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... It Seems Hard To Sneak A Look At God's Cards. But That He Plays Dice And Uses 'telepathic' Methods... Is Something That I Cannot Believe For A Single Moment.

In The Matter Of Physics, The First Lessons Should Contain Nothing But What Is Experimental And Interesting To See. A Pretty Experiment Is In Itself Often More Valuable Than Twenty Formulae Extracted From Our Minds.

It Is Easy To Say Something New, If All Senses One Will Eschew. But Hardly Ever Is Found, That The New Is Also Sound.

Except In Mathematics, The Shortest Distance Between Point A And Point B Is Seldom A Straight Line. I Don't Believe In Mathematics.

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Anybody Who Really Wants To Abolish War Must Resolutely Declare Himself In Favor Of His Own Country's Resigning A Portion Of Sovereignty In Place Of International Institutions.

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