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One Has A Feeling

Albert Einstein

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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.

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A Successful Man Is He Who Receives A Great Deal From His Fellow Men, Usually Incomparably More Than Corresponds To His Service To Them. The Value Of A Man, However, Should Be Seen In What He Gives And Not In What He Is Able To Receive.

Yes, We Now Have To Divide Up Our Time Like That, Between Politics And Our Equations. But To Me Our Equations Are Far More Important, For Politics Are Only A Matter Of Present Concern. A Mathematical Equation Stands Forever.

In Every True Searcher Of Nature There Is A Kind Of Religious Reverence.

It Occurred To Me By Intuition, And Music Was The Driving Force Behind That Intuition. My Discovery Was The Result Of Musical Perception.

Our Situation On This Earth Seems Strange. Every One Of Us Appears Here Involuntarily And Uninvited For A Short Stay, Without Knowing The Whys And The Wherefore. In Our Daily Lives We Only Feel That Man Is Here For The Sake Of Others, For Those Whom We Love And For Many Other Beings Whose Fate Is Connected With Our Own. I Am Often Worried At The Thought That My Life Is Based To Such A Large Extent On The Work Of My Fellow Human Beings And I Am Aware Of My Great Indebtedness To Them.

Teaching Should Be Such That What Is Offered Is Perceived As A Valuable Gift And Not As A Hard Duty.

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Thinking Like We (always) Have Is What Got Us Where We Are. It Is Not Going To Get Us Where We Are Going.

The Discovery Of Nuclear Chain Reactions Need Not Bring About The Destruction Of Mankind Any More Than Did The Discovery Of Matches. We Only Must Do Everything In Our Power To Safeguard Against Its Abuse. Only A Supranational Organization, Equipped With A Sufficiently Strong Executive Power, Can Protect Us.

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Everyday Is An Oportunity To Make A New Happy Ending.

[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.

Coincidence Is God's Way Of Remaining Anonymous.

The Individual Must Not Merely Wait And Criticize, He Must Defend The Cause The Best He Can. The Fate Of The World Will Be Such As The World Deserves.

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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.

The Religion Of The Future Will Be A Cosmic Religion. The Religion Which Based On Experience, Which Refuses Dogmatic. If There's Any Religion That Would Cope The Scientific Needs It Will Be Buddhism.

It Is Little Short Of A Miracle That Modern Methods Of Instruction Have Not Already Completely Strangled The Holy Curiosity Of Inquiry.... I Believe That One Could Even Deprive A Healthy Beast Of Prey Of Its Voraciousness If One Could Force It With A Whip To Eat Continuously Whether It Were Hungry Or Not.

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

This Topic Brings Me To That Worst Outcrop Of Herd Life, The Military System, Which I Abhor... This Plague-spot Of Civilization Ought To Be Abolished With All Possible Speed. Heroism On Command, Senseless Violence, And All The Loathsome Nonsense That Goes By The Name Of Patriotism -- How Passionately I Hate Them!

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Since The Mathematicians Have Invaded The Theory Of Relativity I Do Not Understand It Myself Any More.

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The Years Of Searching In The Dark For A Truth That One Feels But Cannot Express, The Intense Desire And The Alternations Of Confidence And Misgiving Until One Breaks Through To Clarity And Understanding, Are Known Only To Him Who Has Experienced Them Himself.

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For Science Can Only Ascertain What Is, But Not What Should Be, And Outside Of Its Domain Value Judgments Of All Kinds Remain Necessary. Religion, On The Other Hand, Deals Only With Evaluations Of Human Thought And Action: It Cannot Justifiably Speak Of Facts And Relationships Between Facts.

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Communities Tend To Be Guided Less Than Individuals By Conscience And A Sense Of Responsibility. How Much Misery Does This Fact Cause Mankind! It Is The Source Of Wars And Every Kind Of Oppression, Which Fill The Earth With Pain, Sighs And Bitterness.

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Intelligent Life On Other Planets? I'm Not Even Sure There Is On Earth!

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The Religion Of The Future Will Be A Cosmic Religion. It Should Transcend A Personal God And Avoid Dogmas And Theology. Covering Both The Natural And The Spiritual, It Should Be Based On A Religious Sense Arising From The Experience Of All Things, Natural And Spiritual, As A Meaningful Unity. Buddhism Answers This Description.

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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.

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But Their Intervention Makes Our Acts To Serve Ever Less Merely The Immediate Claims Of Our Instincts.

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

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E Idea Of A Personal God Is Quite Alien To Me And Seems Even Naive. However, I Am Also Not A "freethinker" In The Usual Sense Of The Word Because I Find That This Is In The Main An Attitude Nourished Exclusively By An Opposition Against Naive Superstition. My Feeling Is Insofar Religious As I Am Imbued With The Consciousness Of The Insuffiency Of The Human Mind To Understand Deeply The Harmony Of The Universe Which We Try To Formulate As "laws Of Nature." It Is This Consciousness And Humility I Miss In The Freethinker Mentality. Sincerely Yours, Albert Einstein.

The Important Thing Is Not To Stop Questioning. Curiosity Has Its Own Reason For Existing. One Cannot Help But Be In Awe When He Contemplates The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Reality. It Is Enough If One Tries Merely To Comprehend A Little Of This Mystery Every Day. Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

In Scientific Thinking Are Always Present Elements Of Poetry. Science And Music Requires A Thought Homogeneous.

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One Who Scorns The Power Of Intuition Will Never Rise Above The Ranks Of Journeyman Calculator.

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The Genius Is In Making The Complex Simple.

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Nature Conceals Her Mystery By Her Essential Grandeur.

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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.

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

There Lies The Weaknesss Of Positivists And Professional Atheists Who Are Elated Because They Feel That They Have Not Only Successfully Rid The World Of Gods But "bared The Miracles." (that Is, Explained The Miracles. - Ed.) Oddly Enough, We Must Be Satisfied To Acknowledge The "miracle" Without There Being Any Legitimate Way For Us To Approach It . I Am Forced To Add That Just To Keep You From Thinking That -weakened By Age-i Have Fallen Prey To The Clergy.

If You Do The Same Thing Over And Over Again You Cannot Ever Expect A Different Outcome.

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

If You Took Half Of Something And Continued To Take Half Of That Half And So On, You Would Never Reach An End.

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

While It Is True That Science, To The Extent Of Its Grasp Of Causative Connections, May Reach Important Conclusions As To The Compatibility And Incompatibility Of Goals And Evaluations, The Independent And Fundamental Definitions Regarding Goals And Values Remain Beyond Science's Reach.

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

The Man With The Greatest Soul Will Always Face The Greatest War With The Low Minded Person.

Many Of The Things You Can Count, Don't Count. Many Of The Things You Can't Count, Really Count.

A Religious Person Is Devout In The Sense That He Has No Doubt About The Significance Of Those Superpersonal Objects And Goals Which Neither Require Nor Are Capable Of Rational Foundation

If You Can't Explain Something Simply, You Don't Know Enough About It.

The Monotony And Solitude Of A Quiet Life Stimulates The Creative Mind.

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.

...the Physicist Cannot Simply Surrender To The Philosopher The Critical Contemplation Of The Theoretical Foundations; For, He Himself Knows Best, And Feels More Surely Where The Shoe Pinches...physical Conceptions Are Free Creations Of The Human Mind, And Are Not, However It May Seem, Uniquely Determined By The External World.

Nothing Will End War Unless The Peoples Themselves Refuse To Go To War.

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

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?

Love Is A Better Teacher Than Duty.

The Single Most Important Decision Any Of Us Will Ever Make Is Whether Or Not To Believe The Universe Is Friendly.

I Don't Teach My Students, I Provide The Circumstances In Which They Can Learn.

Life Is A Preparation For The Future; And The Best Preparation For The Future Is To Live As If There Were None.

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

At The Same Time, As Social Beings, We Are Moved In The Relations With Our Fellow Beings By Such Feelings As Sympathy, Pride, Hate, Need For Power, Pity, And So On.

There Are Two Ways To Live: You Can Live As If Nothing Is A Miracle; You Can Live As If Everything Is A Miracle. The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious. It Is The Source Of All True Art And All Science. He To Whom This Emotion Is A Stranger, Who Can No Longer Pause To Wonder And Stand Rapt Is Awe, Is As Good As Dead: His Eyes Are Closed.

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.

All Our Thinking Is Of This Nature, A Free Play With Concepts.

The Words Of Language, As They Are Written Or Spoken, Do Not Seem To Play Any Role In My Mechanism Of Thought. The Physical Entities Which Seem To Serve As Elements In Thought Are Certain Signs And More Or Less Clear Images.

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

Success = 1 Part Work + 1 Part Play + 1 Part Keep Your Mouth Shut

The Most Important Tool Of The Theoretical Physicist Is His Wastebasket.

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

All I Want To Do Is Learn To Think Like God. All The Rest Is Just Details.

Nothing That I Can Do Or Say Will Change The Structure Of The Universe. But Maybe, By Raising My Voice, I Can Help The Greatest Of All Causes — Good Will Among Men And Peace On Earth.

I See My Life In Terms Of Music.

You Do Not Really Understand Something Unless You Can Explain It To Your Grandmother.

Everything Is Determined, The Beginning As Well As The End, By Forces Over Which We Have No Control. It Is Determined For The Insect, As Well As For The Star. Human Beings, Vegetables, Or Cosmic Dust, We All Dance To A Mysterious Tune, Intoned In The Distance By An Invisible Piper.

Our Lives Will Be Measured By What We Do For Others

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.

Our World Faces A Crisis As Yet Unperceived By Those Possessing Power To Make Great Decisions For Good Or Evil. The Unleashed Power Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Save Our Modes Of Thinking And We Thus Drift Toward Unparalleled Catastrophe.

You Are Right In Speaking Of The Moral Foundations Of Science, But You Cannot Turn Around And Speak Of The Scientific Foundations Of Morality.

A Priori One Should Expect A Chaotic World Which Cannot Be Grasped By The Mind In Any Way... The Kind Of Order Created By Newton's Theory Of Gravitation...is Wholly Different. Even If The Axioms Of The Theory Are Proposed By Man, The Success Of Such A Project Presupposes A High Degree Of Ordering Of The Objective World.... That Is The "miracle" Which Is Being Constantly Reinforced As Our Knowledge Expands.

If At First The Idea Is Not Absurd, Then There Is No Hope For It.

The Solution To This Problem Lies In The Heart Of Mankind.

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

The Life Of The Individual Has Meaning Only Insofar As It Aids In Making The Life Of Every Living Thing Nobler And More Beautiful. Life Is Sacred, That Is To Say, It Is The Supreme Value, To Which All Other Values Are Subordinate.

The Essentials Of Being A Person Of My Type Lies Precisely In What They Think And How They Think, Not In What They Do. Your Thoughts Shape You.

Everything That Is Really Great And Inspiring Is Created By The Individual Who Can Labor In Freedom.

From The Standpoint Of Daily Life, However, There Is One Thing We Do Know: That We Are Here For The Sake Of Each Other - Above All For Those Upon Whose Smile And Well-being Our Own Happiness Depends, And Also For The Countless Unknown Souls With Whose Fate We Are Connected By A Bond Of Sympathy. Many Times A Day I Realize How Much My Own Outer And Inner Life Is Built Upon The Labors Of My Fellow Men, Both Living And Dead, And How Earnestly I Must Exert Myself In Order To Give In Return As Much As I Have Received.

The Ways Of Creation Are Wrapt In Mystery. We May Only Marvel, And Bow Our Head.

Concerning Matter, We Have Been All Wrong. What We Have Called Matter Is Energy, Whose Vibration Has Been So Lowered As To Be Perceptible To The Senses. There Is No Matter.

The High Destiny Of The Individual Is To Serve Rather Than To Rule.

It Is Only Men Who Are Free, Who Create The Inventions And Intellectual Works Which To Us Moderns Make Life Worth While.

Don't Listen To The Person Who Has The Answers; Listen To The Person Who Has The Questions.

Every Age Has Its Beautiful Moments.

I Don't Know What Weapons Will Be Used In The Third World War. But I Can Tell You What They'll Use In The Fourth - Rocks!

The Most Precious Things In Life Are Not Those You Get For Money.

Precious Things

If There Is No Price To Be Paid, It Is Also Not Of Value.

Never Let Yourself Be Seduced By Any Problem, No Matter How Difficult.

The Bible Is A Great Source Of Wisdom And Consolation And Should Be Read Frequently.

I Am A Stronger Follower Of Veganism By Principle, Not Just Because Of Moral And Aesthetic Reasons. I Truly Believe In A Vegetarian Lifestyle And I Have Faith And Hopes In Change In Human Destiny, Thanks To The Physical Effects And Benefits Of A Healthier Diet And Its Influence On The Character Of The People. It Will Bring About Some Benefit And Improvement To Human Society.

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

In My Personal Experience I Have Hardly Come To Know The Wretchedness Of Mankind Better Than As A Result Of The General Theory Of Relativity And Everything Connected To It. But It Doesn't Bother Me.

In The Middle Of Difficulties Lie Opportunities.

The Solitude And Peace Of Mind Are Serving Me Quite Well, Not The Least Of Which Is Due To The Excellent And Truly Enjoyable Relationship With My Cousin; Its Stability Will Be Guaranteed By The Avoidance Of Marriage.

The Difference Between Stupidity And Genius Is That Genius Has Its Limits.

That Is The Way To Learn The Most, That When You Are Doing Something With Such Enjoyment That You Don't Notice That The Time Passes.

The World We Have Created Is A Product Of Our Thinking; It Cannot Be Changed Without Changing Our Thinking. If We Want To Change The World We Have To Change Our Thinking...no Problem Can Be Solved From The Same Consciousness That Created It. We Must Learn To See The World Anew.

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

I See A Pattern, But My Imagination Cannot Picture The Maker Of That Pattern. I See A Clock, But I Cannot Envision The Clockmaker. The Human Mind Is Unable To Conceive Of The Four Dimensions, So How Can It Conceive Of A God, Before Whom A Thousand Years And A Thousand Dimensions Are As One?

I Now See The Necessity Of A Beginning.

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

Out Of The Multitude Of Our Sense Experiences We Take, Mentally And Arbitrarily, Certain Repeatedly Occurring Complexes Of Sense Impression (partly In Conjunction With Sense Impressions Which Are Interpreted As Signs For Sense Experiences Of Others), And We Attribute To Them A Meaning The Meaning Of The Bodily Object.

The Relativity Principle In Connection With The Basic Maxwellian Equations Demands That The Mass Should Be A Direct Measure Of The Energy Contained In A Body; Light Transfers Mass. With Radium There Should Be A Noticeable Diminution Of Mass. The Idea Is Amusing And Enticing; But Whether The Almighty Is Laughing At It And Is Leading Me Up The Garden Path -- That I Cannot Know.

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

The Splitting Of The Atom Has Changed Everything Except For How We Think.

I Believe That Whoever Tries To Think Things Through Honestly Will Soon Recognize How Unworthy And Even Fatal Is The Traditional Bias Against Negroes. What Can The Man Of Good Will Do To Combat This Deeply Rooted Prejudice? He Must Have The Courage To Set An Example By Words And Deed, And Must Watch Lest His Children Become Influenced By Racial Bias.

It Is True That My Parents Were Worried Because I Began To Speak Fairly Late, So That They Even Consulted A Doctor. I Can't Say How Old I Was - But Surely Not Less Than Three.

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.

[mystery] Is The Fundamental Emotion That Stands At The Cradle Of True Art And True Science.

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You Accept The Historical Jesus?

What Can The Schools Do To Defend Democracy? Should They Preach A Specific Political Doctrine? I Believe They Should Not. If They Are Able To Teach Young People To Have A Critical Mind And A Socially Oriented Attitude, They Will Have Done All That Is Necessary.

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The Distinction Between The Past, Present And Future Is Only A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion.

When You Sit With A Nice Girl For Two Hours, It Seems Like Two Minutes; When You Sit On A Hot Stove For Two Minutes, It Seems Like Two Hours. That's Relativity.

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