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I Cannot Conceive Of A Personal God Who Would Directly Influence The Actions Of Individuals, Or Would Directly Sit In Judgment On Creatures Of His Own Creation. I Cannot Do This In Spite Of The Fact That Mechanistic Causality Has, To A Certain Extent, Been Placed In Doubt By Modern Science. My Religiosity Consists In A Humble Admiration Of The Infinitely Superior Spirit That Reveals Itself In The Little That We, With Our Weak And Transitory Understanding, Can Comprehend Of Reality. Morality Is Of The Highest Importance - But For Us, Not For God.

-Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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I Cannot Conceive Of A Personal God Who Would Directly Influence The Actions Of Individuals, Or Would Directly Sit In Judgment On Creatures Of His Own Creation. I Cannot Do This In Spite Of The Fact That Mechanistic Causality Has, To A Certain Extent, Been Placed In Doubt By Modern Science. My Religiosity Consists In A Humble Admiration Of The Infinitely Superior Spirit That Reveals Itself In The Little That We, With Our Weak And Transitory Understanding, Can Comprehend Of Reality. Morality Is Of The Highest Importance - But For Us, Not For God.

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When I Read The Bhagavad-gita And Reflect About How God Created This Universe Everything Else Seems So Superfluous

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To Punish Me For My Contempt For Authority, Fate Made Me An Authority Myself.

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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.

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