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If One Day You Have To Choose Between The World And Love, Remember This: If You Choose The World You’ll Be Left Without Love, But If You Choose Love, With It You Will Conquer The World

-Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

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If One Day You Have To Choose Between The World And Love, Remember This: If You Choose The World You’ll Be Left Without Love, But If You Choose Love, With It You Will Conquer The World

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I Now See The Necessity Of A Beginning.

This Has Been Done Elegantly By Minkowski; But Chalk Is Cheaper Than Grey Matter, And We Will Do It As It Comes.

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.

If One Asks The Whence Derives The Authority Of Fundamental Ends, Since They Cannot Be Stated And Justified Merely By Reason, One Can Only Answer: They Exist In A Healthy Society As Powerful Traditions, Which Act Upon The Conduct And Aspirations And Judgments Of The Individuals; They Are There, That Is, As Something Living, Without Its Being Necessary To Find Justification For Their Existence.

I Must Seem Like An Ostrich Who Forever Burries Its Head In The Relativistic Sands In Order Not To Face The Evil Quanta.

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

Without Changing Our Pattern Of Thought, We Will Not Be Able To Solve The Problems We Created With Our Current Patterns Of Thought

Know Where To Find The Information And How To Use It - That's The Secret Of Success.

Every Day, Man Is Making Bigger And Better Fool-proof Things, And Every Day, Nature Is Making Bigger And Better Fools. So Far, I Think Nature Is Winning.

Creativity Is Seeing What Others See And Thinking What No One Else Has Ever Thought.

If You Want Your Children To Be Intelligent, Read Them Fairy Tales. If You Want Them To Be More Intelligent, Read Them More Fairy Tales.

I Believe Serious Progress (in The Abolition Of War) Can Be Achieved Only When Men Become Organized On An International Scale And Refuse, As A Body, To Enter Military Or War Service.

The Ideals Which Have Always Shone Before Me And Filled Me With The Joy Of Living Are Goodness, Beauty, And Truth.

Stupidity Is A Personal Achievement Which Transcends National Boundaries.

It Seems To Me An Utterly Futile Task To Prescribe Rules And Limitations For The Conduct Of War. War Is Not A Game; Hence One Cannot Wage War By Rules As One Would In Playing Games. Our Fight Must Be Against War Itself. The Masses Of People Can Most Effectively Fight The Institution Of War By Establishing An Organization For The Absolute Refusal Of Military Service.

The Physicists Say That I Am A Mathematician, And The Mathematicians Say That I Am A Physicist. I Am A Completely Isolated Man And Though Everybody Knows Me, There Are Very Few People Who Really Know Me.

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

The Truth Isn't Always A Blinding Light. Sometimes It's A Deep And Dazzling Darkness, That Illuminates - And Burns - Just As Surely.

Only World Law Can Assure Progress Towards A Civilized Peaceful Community.

I Prefer To Make Up My Own Quotes And Attribute Them To Very Smart People, So That I Can Use Them To Win Arguments

The Health Of Society Thus Depends Quite As Much On The Independence Of The Individuals Composing It As On Their Close Political Cohesion.

Nothing Happens Unless Something Moves.

A Thousand Things Can Prove Me Right And One Can Prove Me Wrong.

Albert Is A Very Poor Student. He Is Mentally Slow, Unsociable And Is Always Daydreaming. He Is Spoiling It For The Rest Of The Class. It Would Be In The Best Interests Of All If He Were Removed From School Immediately.

External Conditions Can, To A Certain Extent, Reduce, But Never Cancel Individual Repsonsibility.

It Takes A Different Kind Of Thinking To Solve A Problem Than The Kind Of Thinking Which Produced The Problem.

I Like To Experience The Universe As One Harmonious Whole. Every Cell Has Life. Matter, Too, Has Life; It Is Energy Solidified. Our Bodies Are Like Prisons, And I Look Forward To Be Free, But I Don't Speculate On What Will Happen To Me. I Live Here Now, And My Responsibility Is In This World Now.

Chess Holds Its Master In Its Own Bonds, Shackling The Mind And Brain So That The Inner Freedom Of The Very Strongest Must Suffer.

My Mind Is My Laboratory.

In My View, It Is The Most Important Function Of Art And Science To Awaken This Feeling And Keep It Alive In Those Who Are Capable Of It.

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

Combinatory Play Seems To Be The Essential Feature In Productive Thought.

I Am By Heritage A Jew, By Citizenship A Swiss, And By Makeup A Human Being, And Only A Human Being, Without Any Special Attachment To Any State Or National Entity Whatsoever.

Even If You Have To Go Through Hell - Go Without Hesitation.

I Am Not A Positivist. Positivism States That What Cannot Be Observed Does Not Exist. This Conception Is Scientifically Indefensible, For It Is Impossible To Make Valid Affirmations Of What People 'can' Or 'cannot' Observe. One Would Have To Say 'only What We Observe Exists,' Which Is Obviously False.

Agreements About What Is Good Or Not, Are Usually Not Worth Much. It Is Very Much Like Art, Is It Not An Art To Lead A Good Life?

.. Free And Responsible Development Of The Individual, So That He May Place His Powers Freely And Gladly In The Service Of All Mankind. There Is No Room In This For The Divinization Of A Nation, Of A Class, Let Alone Of An Individual. Are We Not All Children Of One Father, As It Is Said In Religious Language?

The Leader Is One Who, Out Of The Clutter, Brings Simplicity... Out Of Discord, Harmony... And Out Of Difficulty, Opportunity.

Don't Become A Seeker Of Success. Become A Person Of Value.

I Never Thought That Others Would Take My Theories So Much More Seriously Than I Did.

Long Hair Minimizes The Need For Barbers; Socks Can Be Done Without; One Leather Jacket Solves The Coat Problem For Many Years; Suspenders Are Superfluous.

Leather Jackets

Give Back To The World At Least What You've Received.

It Would Be My Greatest Sadness To See Zionists (jews) Do To Palestinian Arabs Much Of What Nazis Did To Jews.

Thanks To My Fortunate Idea Of Introducing The Relativity Principle Into Physics, You (and Others) Now Enormously Overrate My Scientific Abilities, To The Point Where This Makes Me Quite Uncomfortable.

Any Fool Can Know. The Point Is To Understand.

Logic Can Take You From Point A To Point B. Imagination Can Take You Wherever You Want

There Are Six-million Shots In The Game Of Pool.

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It Takes A Touch Of Genius - And A Lot Of Courage To Move In The Opposite Direction.

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The World Is An Evil Place To Live In. Not For Those Who Do Evil, But For Those Who Sit Back And Allow Evil To Occur.

Example Isn't Another Way To Teach, It Is The Only Way To Teach.

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Condemnation Before Investigation Is The Highest Form Of Ignorance.

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Never Underestimate Your Own Ignorance.

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

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To The Extent Math Refers To Reality, We Are Not Certain To The Extent We Are Certain, Math Does Not Refer To Reality.

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People Like You And I, Though Mortal Of Course Like Everyone Else, Do Not Grow Old No Matter How Long We Live.

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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.

I Know Little About Nature And Hardly Anything About Men.

If One Tries To Navigate Unknown Waters One Runs The Risk Of Shipwreck

Bureaucracy Is The Death Of All Sound Work.

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You Cannot Love A Car The Way You Love A Horse. The Horse Brings Out Human Feelings The Way Machines Cannot Do. Things Like Machines May Develop Or Neglect Certain Things In People ... Machines Make Our Life Impersonal And Stultify Certain Elements In Us And Create An Impersonal Environment.

Human Beings, In Their Thinking, Feeling And Acting Are Not Free Agents But Are As Causally Bound As The Stars In Their Motion.

When You Are Courting A Nice Girl An Hour Seems Like A Second. When You Sit On A Red-hot Cinder A Second Seems Like An Hour. That's Relativity.

You Cannot Beat A Roulette Table Unless You Steal Money From It.

Through The Release Of Atomic Energy, Our Generation Has Brought Into The World The Most Revolutionary Force Since Prehistoric Man's Discovery Of Fire. This Basic Force Of The Universe Cannot Be Fitted Into The Outmoded Concept Of Narrow Nationalisms.

When You Are Courting A Nice Girl An Hour Seems Like A Second.

Funny Inspirational

One Must Take What Nature Gives As One Finds It.

Politics Is Far More Complicated Than Physics.

Women Marry Men Hoping They Will Change. Men Marry Women Hoping They Will Not.

A Problem Cannot Be Solved At The Level Of Consciousness In Which It Occurs.

The World Is Not Full Of Evil Because Of Those Who Do Wrong. It Is Full Of Evil Because Of Those Who Do Nothing.

Words Of Wisdom

An Evening Everyone Agrees, Is A Lost Evening.

Gravitation Cannot Be Held Responsible For People Falling In Love. How On Earth Can You Explain In Terms Of Chemistry And Physics So Important A Biological Phenomenon As First Love? Put Your Hand On A Stove For A Minute And It Seems Like An Hour. Sit With That Special Girl For An Hour And It Seems Like A Minute. That's Relativity.

Out Of Complexity, Find Simplicity!

Is It Not A Terrible Thing To Be Forced By Society To Do Things Which All Of Us As Individuals Regard As Abominable Crimes?

There Are Two Different Conceptions About The Nature Of The Universe: (1) The World As A Unity Dependent On Humanity; (2) The World As A Reality Independent Of The Human Factor.

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

I Have Come To Know The Mutability Of All Human Relationships And Have Learned To Insulate Myself Against Both Heat And Cold So That A Temperature Balance Is Fairly Well Assured.

If People Would Only Talk About What They Understood, Earth Would Be A Very Quiet Place.

As For The Search For Truth, I Know From My Own Painful Searching, With Its Many Blind Alleys, How Hard It Is To Take A Reliable Step, Be It Ever So Small, Towards The Understanding Of That Which Is Truly Significant.

Insofar As Mathematics Is True, It Does Not Describe The Real World. Insofar As It Describes The Real World, It Is Not True.

One Should Respect An Honest Person Even If He Expresses Opinions Differing From One's Own.

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

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

There Has Been An Earth For A Little More Than A Billion Years. As For The Question Of The End Of It I Advise: Wait And See!

They Come Into Being Not Through Demonstration But Through Revelation, Through The Medium Of Powerful Personalities.

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.

What Good Is A Reputation Not Put To Good Use.

Compound Interest Is The Eighth Wonder Of The World. He Who Understands It, Earns It ... He Who Doesn't ... Pays It.

Everyone Has Two Choices. We're Either Full Of Love... Or Full Of Fear.

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Relativity Applies To Physics, Not Ethics.

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The School Has Always Been The Most Important Means Of Transferring The Wealth Of Tradition From One Generation To The Next. This Applies Today In An Even Higher Degree Than In Former Times, For Through Modern Development Of Economic Life, The Family

We Will Never Be Able To Solve The Problems Of Tomorrow With The Thinking Of Today

I Hate Crowds And Making Speeches. I Hate Facing Cameras And Having To Answer To A Crossfire Of Questions. Why Popular Fancy Should Seize Upon Me, A Scientist, Dealing In Abstract Things And Happy If Left Alone, Is A Manifestation Of Mass Psychology That Is Beyond Me.

Only One Who Devotes Himself To A Cause With His Whole Strength And Soul Can Be A True Master. For This Reason Mastery Demands All Of A Person.

It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge.

The More I Learn Of Physics, The More I Am Drawn To Metaphysics.

The Content Of Scientific Theory Itself Offers No Moral Foundation For The Personal Conduct Of Life.

Imagination Encircles The World.

All That Is Valuable In Human Society Depends Upon The Opportunity For Development Accorded The Individual.

Whatever There Is Of God And Goodness In The Universe, It Must Work Itself Out And Express Itself Through Us. We Cannot Stand Aside And Let God Do It.

Curiosity Has Its Own Reason For Existence.

The World Needs Heroes And It's Better They Be Harmless Men Like Me Than Villains Like Hitler

When Men Are Engaged In War And Conquest, The Tools Of Science Become As Dangerous As A Razor In The Hands Of A Child Of Three. We Must Not Condemn Man Because His Inventiveness And Patient Conquest Of The Forces Of Nature Are Being Exploited For False And Destructive Purposes. Rather, We Should Remember That The Fate Of Mankind Hinges Entirely Upon Man’s Moral Development.

Earnestly I Must Exert Myself In Order To Return As Much As I Have Received.

It's No Accident That Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge. Egoism And Competition Are, Alas, Stronger Forces Than Public Spirit And Sense Of Duty.

A Conflict Arises When A Religious Community Insists On The Absolute Truthfulness Of All Statements Recorded In The Bible. This Means An Intervention On The Part Of Religion Into The Sphere Of Science; This Is Where The Struggle Of The Church Against Doctrines Of Galileo And Darwin Belongs.

Men Marry Women With The Hope They Will Never Change. Women Marry Men With The Hope They Will Change. Invariably They Are Both Disappointed.

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

A Forced Faithfulness Is A Bitter Fruit For All Concerned.

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

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

Only Strong Characters Can Resist The Temptation Of Superficial Analysis.

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.

[o]nly If Every Individual Strives For Truth Can Humanity Attain A Happier Future; The Atavisms In Each Of Us That Stand In The Way Of A Friendlier Destiny Can Only Thus Be Rendered Ineffective.

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.

Most Teachers Waste Their Time By Asking Question Which Are Intended To Discover What A Pupil Does Not Know Whereas The True Art Of Questioning Has For Its Purpose To Discover What Pupils Knows Or Is Capable Of Knowing.

I Never Think Of The Future - It Comes Soon Enough.

A Country Cannot Simultaneously Prepare And Prevent War. I Know Not With What Weapons World War Iii Will Be Fought, But World War Iv Will Be Fought With Sticks And Stones. The Distinctions Separating The Social Classes Are False; In The Last Analysis They Rest On Force.

X + Y + Z X Is Work. Y Is Play. Z Is Keep Your Mouth Shut.

Keeping Your Mouth Shut

A Person Starts To Live When He Can Live Outside Himself.

To See With One's Own Eyes, To Feel And Judge Without Succumbing To The Suggestive Power Of The Fashion Of The Day, To Be Able To Express What One Has Seen And Felt In A Snappy Sentence Or Even In A Cunningly Wrought Word - Is That Not Glorious? Is It Not A Proper Subject For Congregation?

The State Is Made For Mankind, Not Mankind For The State

Why Is It I Always Get My Best Ideas While Shaving?

The Constitution Only Guarantees The American People The Right To Pursue Happiness. You Have To Catch It Yourself. A Table, A Chair, A Bowl Of Fruit And A Violin; What Else Does A Man Need To Be Happy?

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.

I Have Yet To Figure Out Whether It Is I Am That Am Crazy, Or The World.

If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self.

The Great Moral Teachers Of Humanity Were In A Way Artistic Geniuses In The Art Of Living.

When You Trip Over Love, It Is Easy To Get Up. But When You Fall In Love, It Is Impossible To Stand Again.

Creativity Is Inspiration Having Fun

Human Beings, Vegetables, Or Cosmic Dust, We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune, Intoned In The Distance By An Invisible Piper.

Only The One Who Does Not Question Is Safe From Making A Mistake.

Making Mistakes

You Can't Resolve A Dilemma With All The Very Same Mind That Made It

The Most Incomprehensible Thing About The World Is That It Is Comprehensible.

The Trouble With The Younger Generation Is That They Don't Stay Young For Very Long.

I Consider It Important, Indeed Urgently Necessary, For Intellectual Workers To Get Together, Both To Protect Their Own Economic Status And, Also, Generally Speaking, To Secure Their Influence In The Political Field.

From Discord, Find Harmony.

Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose.

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