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I Feel That You Are Justified In Looking Into The Future With True Assurance, Because You Have A Mode Of Living In Which We Find The Joy Of Life And The Joy Of Work Harmoniously Combined. Added To This Is The Spirit Of Ambition Which Pervades Your Very Being, And Seems To Make The Day's Work Like A Happy Child At Play.

-Albert Einstein

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I Feel That You Are Justified In Looking Into The Future With True Assurance, Because You Have A Mode Of Living In Which We Find The Joy Of Life And The Joy Of Work Harmoniously Combined. Added To This Is The Spirit Of Ambition Which Pervades Your Very Being, And Seems To Make The Day's Work Like A Happy Child At Play.

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The Cult Of Individual Personalities Is Always, In My View, Unjustified. To Be Sure, Nature Distributes Her Gifts Variously Among Her Children. But There Are Plenty Of The Well-endowed Ones Too, Thank God, And I Am Firmly Convinced That Most Of Them Live Quiet, Unregarded Lives.

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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.

People Will Not Disarm Step By Step; They Will Disarm At One Blow Or Not At All.

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

Ethics And Morals

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I Live My Daydreams In Music I See My Life In Terms Of Music. I Get Most Joy In Life Out Of Music.

New Frameworks Are Like Climbing A Mountain - The Larger View Encompasses Rather Than Rejects The More Restricted View.

You Have To Color Outside The Lines Once In A While If You Want To Make Your Life A Masterpiece.

Everyone Should Be Respected As An Individual, But No One Idolized.

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

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

When The Nazis Came To Power, I Looked To The Universities That Prided Themselves Upon Their Intellectual Freedom, And They Failed Me. I Looked To The German Press, Which Prided Itself On The Freedom Of The Press, And It Failed Me. Until At Last The Churches Stood Alone, And That For Which I Once Had Little Regard Earned My Respect.

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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.

Nothing Happens Unless Something Moves.

When I Was Still A Rather Precocious Young Man, I Already Realized Most Vividly The Futility Of The Hopes And Aspirations That Most Men Pursue Throughout Their Lives.

Futility Of Life

Any Society Which Does Not Insist Upon Respect For All Life Must Necessarily Decay.

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.

Was Wirklich Zählt, Ist Intuition

... A Person Who Is Religiously Enlightened Appears To Me To Be One Who Has, To The Best Of His Ability, Liberated Himself From The Fetters Of His Selfish Desires And Is Preoccupied With Thoughts, Feelings, And Aspirations To Which He Clings Because Of Their Superpersonal Value.

I Was Just More Stubborn And More Passionate Than Most About Physics.

To Take Those Fools In Clerical Garb Seriously Is To Show Them Too Much Honor.

Balance In Large Measure Is Knowing The Things That Can Be Changed, Putting Them In Proper Perspective, And Recognizing The Things That Will Not Change."

Relativity Teaches Us The Connection Between The Different Descriptions Of One And The Same Reality.

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 Unleashed Power Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Save Our Modes Of Thinking And We Thus Drift Toward Unparalleled Catastrophe.

An Empty Stomach Is Not A Good Political Adviser.

A Perfection Of Means, And Confusion Of Aims, Seems To Be Our Main Problem.

My Success Wasn't So Much Due To Intelligence, But The Fact That I Stuck With Problems Longer.

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

Persistence Is The Most Powerful Force On Earth, It Can Move Mountains.

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Human Knowledge And Skills Alone Cannot Lead Humanity To A Happy And Dignified Life. Humanity Has Every Reason To Place The Proclaimers Of High Moral Standards And Values Above The Discoverers Of Objective Truth.

Opening Your Mind

Nothing In The World Makes People So Afraid As The Influence Of Independent-minded People.

The Leaves And The Light Are One.

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

I Live In That Solitude Which Is Painful In Youth, But Delicious In The Years Of Maturity.

I Think 99 Times And Find Nothing. I Stop Thinking, Swim In The Silence, And The Truth Comes To Me.

Man Is, At One And The Same Time, A Solitary Being And A Social Being. As A Solitary Being, He Attempts To Protect His Own Existence And That Of Those Who Are Closest To Him, To Satisfy His Personal Desires, And To Develop His Innate Abilities. As A Social Being, He Seeks To Gain The Recognition And Affection Of His Fellow Human Beings, To Share In Their Pleasures, To Comfort Them In Their Sorrows, And To Improve Their Conditions Of Life.

If The Bee Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live. This Is Regarded As Probably Not A Quote By Einstein.

I Am A Deeply Religious Nonbeliever - This Is A Somewhat New Kind Of Religion.

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

Once You Can Accept The Universe As Matter Expanding Into Nothing That Is Something, Wearing Stripes With Plaid Comes Easy.

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