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One Has To Realize That The Powerful Industrial Groups Concerned In The Manufacture Of Arms Are Doing Their Best In All Countries To Prevent The Peaceful Settlement Of International Disputes, And That Rulers Can Achieve This Great End Only If They Are Sure Of The Vigorous Support Of The Majority Of Their Peoples.

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One Has To Realize

Albert Einstein

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One Has To Realize That The Powerful Industrial Groups Concerned In The Manufacture Of Arms Are Doing Their Best In All Countries To Prevent The Peaceful Settlement Of International Disputes, And That Rulers Can Achieve This Great End Only If They Are Sure Of The Vigorous Support Of The Majority Of Their Peoples.

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A Man Should Look For What Is, And Not For What He Thinks Should Be.

Long Live Impudence. It Was My Guardian Angel In This World.

Intellectual Growth Should Commence At Birth And Cease Only At Death.

The Best That Gauss Has Given Us Was Likewise An Exclusive Production. If He Had Not Created His Geometry Of Surfaces, Which Served Riemann As A Basis, It Is Scarcely Conceivable That Anyone Else Would Have Discovered It. I Do Not Hesitate To Confess That To A Certain Extent A Similar Pleasure May Be Found By Absorbing Ourselves In Questions Of Pure Geometry.

The World Is A Dangerous Place To Live; Not Because Of The People Who Are Evil, But Because Of The People Who Don't Do Anything About It.

Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

My Comprehension Of God Comes From A Deeply Felt Conviction Of A Superior Intelligence That Reveals Itself In The Knowable World.

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

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

Today We Must Abandon Competition And Secure Cooperation. This Must Be The Central Fact In All Our Considerations Of International Affairs; Otherwise We Face Certain Disaster. Past Thinking And Methods Did Not Prevent World Wars. Future Thinking Must Prevent Wars...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.

Any Government Is Evil If It Carries Within It The Tendency To Deteriorate Into Tyranny. The Danger Of Such Deterioration Is More Acute In A Country In Which The Government Has Authority Not Only Over The Armed Forces But Also Over Every Channel Of Education And Information.

Each Makes This Cosmos And Its Construction The Pivot Of His Emotional Life, In Order To Find In This Way Peace And Security Which He Can Not Find In The Narrow Whirlpool Of Personal Experience.

A Clever Person Solves A Problem. A Wise Person Avoids It.

There Is No Greater Satisfaction For A Just And Well-meaning Person Than The Knowledge That He Has Devoted His Best Energies To The Service Of The Good Cause.

Try First To Be A Man Of Value; Success Will Follow.

The Most Beautiful Experience In The World Is The Experience Of The Mysterious.

Man Tries To Make For Himself In The Fashion That Suits Him Best A Simplified And Intelligible Picture Of The World; He Then Tries To Some Extent To Substitute This Cosmos Of His For The World Of Experience, And Thus To Overcome It. This Is What The Painter, The Poet, The Speculative Philosopher, And The Natural Scientists Do, Each In His Own Fashion. Each Makes This Cosmos And Its Construction The Pivot Of His Emotional Life, In Order To Find In This Way Peace And Security Which He Can Not Find In The Narrow Whirlpool Of Personal Experience.

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

When I Think Of The Most Able Students I Have Encountered In My Teaching - I Mean Those Who Have Distinguished Themselves Not Only By Skill But By Independence Of Thought - Then I Must Confess That All Have Had A Lively Interest In Epistemology.

Marie Curie Is, Of All Celebrated Beings, The Only One Whom Fame Has Not Corrupted.

We Are Part Of The Whole Which We Call The Universe, But It Is An Optical Delusion Of Our Mind That We Think We Are Separate. This Separateness Is Like A Prison For Us. Our Job Is To Widen The Circle Of Our Compassion So We Feel Connected With All People And Situations.

The Restriction Of Knowledge To An Elite Group Destroys The Spirit Of The Society And Leads To Its Intellectual Impoverishment.

In Matters Of Truth And Justice, There Is No Difference Between Large And Small Problems, For Issues Concerning The Treatment Of People Are All The Same.

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.

The Comprehensibility Of The World Seems To Me A Wonder Or Eternal Secret. Here Lies The Sense Of Wonder Which Increases Even More With The Development Of Our Knowledge.

The Ideals Which Have Always Shone Before Me And Filled Me With The Joy Of Living Are Goodness, Beauty, And Truth. To Make A Goal Of Comfort Or Happiness Has Never Appealed To Me; A System Of Ethics Built On This Basis Would Be Sufficient Only For A Herd Of Cattle.

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion. Herein Lies The Germ Of All Art And All True Science. Anyone To Whom This Feeling Is Alien, Who Is No Longer Capable Of Wonderment And Lives In A State Of Fear Is A Dead Man.

It Is Not So Important Where One Settles Down. The Best Thing Is To Follow Your Instincts Without Too Much Reflection.

Don't Think About Why You Question, Simply Don't Stop Questioning. Don't Worry About What You Can't Answer, And Don't Try To Explain What You Can't Know. Curiosity Is Its Own Reason. Aren't You In Awe When You Contemplate The Mysteries Of Eternity, Of Life, Of The Marvelous Structure Behind Reality? And This Is The Miracle Of The Human Mind - To Use Its Constructions, Concepts, And Formulas As Tools To Explain What Man Sees, Feels And Touches. Try To Comprehend A Little More Each Day. Have Holy Curiosity.

... On Principle, It Is Quite Wrong To Try Founding A Theory On Observable Magnitudes Alone. In Reality The Very Opposite Happens. It Is The Theory Which Decides What We Can Observe.

Do Not Grow Old, No Matter How Long You Live. Never Cease To Stand Like Curious Children Before The Great Mystery Into Which We Were Born.

Life Is Like A Bicycle; Keep Moving On To Maintain Balance.

I Believe That Pipe Smoking Contributes To A Somewhat Calm And Objective Judgement In All Human Affairs.

Never Lose A Holy Curiosity. Try Not To Become A Man Of Success But Rather Try To Become A Man Of Value. He Is Considered Successful In Our Day Who Gets More Out Of Life Than He Puts In. But A Man Of Value Will Give More Than He Receives.

I Soon Learned To Scent Out That Which Was Able To Lead To Fundamentals And To Turn Aside From Everything Else, From The Multitude Of Things Which Clutter Up The Mind And Divert It From The Essential.

Subtle Is The Lord. Malicious, He Is Not.

Assumptions Are Made And Most Assumptions Are Wrong.

The Most Important Human Endeavor Is The Striving For Morality In Our Actions.

Jesus Is Too Colossal For The Pen Of Phrasemongers, However Artful. No Man Can Dispose Of Christianity With A Bon Mot

Curiosity Is Its Own Reason.

It May Affront The Military-minded Person To Suggest A Regime That Does Not Maintain Any Military Secrets.

It Is Strange To Be Known So Universally And Yet To Be So Lonely.

A Country Cannot Simultaneously Prepare And Prevent War.

When A Blind Beetle Crawls Over The Surface Of A Globe He Doesn't Notice That The Track He Has Covered Is Curved. I Was Lucky Enough To Have Spotted It.

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

In The Past It Never Occurred To Me That Every Casual Remark Of Mine Would Be Snatched Up And Recorded. Otherwise I Would Have Crept Further Into My Shell.

Life Is A Mystery, Not A Problem Waiting To Be Solved.

Strive Not To Be A Success, But Rather To Be Of Value.

We Experience Ourselves Our Thoughts And Feelings As Something Separate From The Rest. A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of Consciousness. This Delusion Is A Kind Of Prison For Us, Restricting Us To Our Personal Desires And To Affection For A Few Persons Nearest To Us.

The Difference Between What The Most And The Least Learned People Know Is Inexpressibly Trivial In Relation To That Which Is Unknown.

[when Asked "dr. Einstein, Why Is It That When The Mind Of Man Has Stretched So Far As To Discover The Structure Of The Atom We Have Been Unable To Devise The Political Means To Keep The Atom From Destroying Us?"] That Is Simple, My Friend. It Is Because Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

It Is Quite Possible That We Can Do Greater Things Than Jesus, For What Is Written In The Bible About Him Is Poetically Embellished.

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Innovation Is Everyones Responsibility, Not Just R&ds.

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

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

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We Still Do Not Know One Thousandth Of One Percent Of What Nature Has Revealed To Us.

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Make Everything As Simple As Possible, But Not Simpler.

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One Has To Realize That The Powerful Industrial Groups Concerned In The Manufacture Of Arms Are Doing Their Best In All Countries To Prevent The Peaceful Settlement Of International Disputes, And That Rulers Can Achieve This Great End Only If They Are Sure Of The Vigorous Support Of The Majority Of Their Peoples.

Everyone Likes Me, Yet Nobody Understands Me.

Nobody Understands Me

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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.

Marriage Is But Slavery Made To Appear Civilized.

What Good Is A Reputation Not Put To Good Use.

Everybody Should Be Ashamed Who Uses The Wonders Of Science And Engineering Without Thinking And Having Mentally Realized Not More Of It Than A Cow Realizes Of The Botany Of The Plants Which It Eats With Pleasure.

What Is Inconceivable About The Universe Is That It Is At All Conceivable.

Peace Cannot Be Kept By Force. It Can Only Be Achieved By Understanding. You Cannot Subjugate A Nation Forcibly Unless You Wipe Out Every Man, Woman, And Child. Unless You Wish To Use Such Drastic Measures, You Must Find A Way Of Settling Your Disputes Without Resort To Arms.

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun.

My Life Is A Simple Thing That Would Interest No One. It Is A Known Fact That I Was Born, And That Is All That Is Necessary.

People Should Be More Like Animals . . . They Should Be More Intuitive; They Should Not Be Too Conscious Of What They Do While They Do It.

You Accept The Historical Jesus?

The Power Of Imagination Is The Ultimate Creative Power.. No Doubt About That. While Knowledge Defines All We Currently Know And Understand.. Imagination Points To All We Might Yet Discover And Create. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Your Imagination Is Your Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions

Music Has No Effect On Research Work, But Both Are Born Of The Same Source And Complement Each Other Through The Satisfaction They Bestow

Every One Who Is Seriously Involved In The Pursuit Of Science Becomes Convinced That A Spirit Is Manifest In The Laws Of The Universe-a Spirit Vastly Superior To That Of Man, And One In The Face Of Which We With Our Modest Powers Must Feel Humble.

Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries

There's Something To Be Said For Relatives...it Has To Be Said Because It's Unprintable!

America Is Today The Hope Of All Honorable Men Who Respect The Rights Of Their Fellow Men And Who Believe In The Principle Of Freedom And Justice.

The Measure Of Intelligence Is The Ability To Change.

The Indifference, Callousness And Contempt That So Many People Exhibit Toward Animals Is Evil First Because It Results In Great Suffering In Animals, And Second Because It Results In An Incalculably Great Impoverishment Of The Human Spirit.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge.

You Believe In The God Who Plays Dice, And I In Complete Law And Order In A World That Objectively Exists, And Which I, In A Wildly Speculative Way, Am Trying To Capture. ... Even The Great Initial Success Of The Quantum Theory Does Not Make Me Believe In The Fundamental Dice-game, Although I Am Well Aware That Our Younger Colleagues Interpret This As A Consequence Of Senility. No Doubt The Day Will Come When We Will See Whose Instinctive Attitude Was The Correct One.

But Science Can Only Be Created By Those Who Are Thoroughly Imbued With The Aspiration Toward Truth And Understanding. This Source Of Feeling, However, Springs From The Sphere Of Religion. To This There Also Belongs The Faith In The Possibility That The Regulations Valid For The World Of Existence Are Rational, That Is, Comprehensible To Reason. I Cannot Conceive Of A Genuine Scientist Without That Profound Faith. The Situation May Be Expressed By An Image: Science Without Religion Is Lame, Religion Without Science Is Blind.

When I Was Young I Found Out That The Big Toe Always Ends Up Making A Hole In A Sock. So I Stopped Wearing Socks.

There Is Separation Of Colored People From White People In The United States. That Separation Is Not A Disease Of Colored People. It Is A Disease Of White People. I Do Not Intend To Be Quiet About It.

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 Schoolbooks Glorify War And Conceal Its Horrors. They Indoctrinate Children With Hatred. I Would Teach Peace Rather Than War, Love Rather Than Hate.

There Are Actually Two Approaches To Reside Your Daily Life. One Is As If Absolutely Nothing Is Really A Miracle. The Other Is As If Every Little Thing Is A Wonder

To Understand The World One Must Not Be Worrying About One's Self.

America Is A Democracy And Has No Hitler, But I Am Afraid For Her Future; There Are Hard Times Ahead For The American People, Troubles Will Be Coming From Within And Without. America Cannot Smile Away Their Negro Problem Nor Hiroshima And Nagasaki. There Are Cosmic Laws.

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This Is Too Difficult For A Mathematician. It Takes A Philosopher. The Hardest Thing In The World To Understand Is The Income Tax.

Incompetence Is The True Crisis.

God Almighty Does Not Throw Dice.

Democracy, Taken In Its Narrower, Purely Political, Sense, Suffers From The Fact That Those In Economic And Political Power Possess The Means For Molding Public Opinion To Serve Their Own Class Interests. The Democratic Form Of Government In Itself Does Not Automatically Solve Problems; It Offers, However, A Useful Framework For Their Solution. Everything Depends Ultimately On The Political And Moral Qualities Of The Citizenry.

Nothing Truly Valuable Can Be Achieved Except By The Unselfish Cooperation Of Many Individuals.

Compassionate People Are Geniuses In The Art Of Living, More Necessary To The Dignity, Security, And Joy Of Humanity Than The Discoverers Of Knowledge.

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.

The Daily Struggle Does Not Arise From A Purpose Or A Program, But From An Immediate Need.

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.

Fear Or Stupidity Has Always Been The Basis Of Most Human Actions.

I Would Absolutely Refuse Any Direct Or Indirect War Service And Would Try To Persuade My Friends To Do The Same, Regardless Of The Reasons For The Cause Of A War.

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

Games Are The Most Elevated Form Of Investigation.

The Most Evident Difference Springs From The Important Part Which Is Played In Man By A Relatively Strong Power Of Imagination And By The Capacity To Think, Aided As It Is By Language And Other Symbolically Devices.

For Me The Jewish Religion Like All Other Religions Is An Incarnation Of The Most Childish Superstitions.

I Believe We Are Here To Do Good. It Is The Responsibility Of Every Human Being To Aspire To Do Something Worthwhile, To Make The World A Better Place Than The One We Found.

Laws Alone Can Not Secure Freedom Of Expression; In Order That Every Man Present His Views Without Penalty There Must Be Spirit Of Tolerance In The Entire Population.

God Always Takes The Simplest Way.

Pablo Casals Is A Very Great Artist. What I Admire Is The Firm Stand He Has Taken Not Only Against The Oppressors Of His Countrymen, But Also Against Those Opportunists Who Are Always Ready To Compromise With The Devil. He Perceives Clearly That The World Is In Greater Peril From Those Who Tolerate Or Encourage Evil Than From Those Who Actually Commit It.

I Am Satisfied With The Mystery Of Life's Eternity And With A Knowledge, A Sense, Of The Marvelous Structure Of Existence - As Well As The Humble Attempt To Understand Even A Tiny Portion Of The Reason That Manifests Itself In Nature.

The More I Study Science, The More I Believe In God.

In The Midst Of Every Crisis, Lies Great Opportunity.

The World We Have Made Is A Result Of The Level Of Thinking We Have Done Thus Far.

You Have To Learn The Rules Of The Game. And Then You Have To Play Better Than Anyone Else.

Private Capitalists Inevitably Control, Directly Or Indirectly, The Main Sources Of Information. It Is Thus Extremely Difficult, And Indeed In Most Cases Quite Impossible, For The Individual Citizen To Come To Objective Conclusions And To Make Intelligent Use Of His Political Rights.

Science Is A Wonderful Thing If One Does Not Have To Earn One's Living At It.

What Interests Me Most Is Whether God Could Have Made The World Differently.

An Evening Everyone Agrees, Is A Lost Evening.

I Have Yet To Meet A Single Person From Our Culture, No Matter What His Or Her Educational Background, Iq, And Specific Training, Who Had Powerful Transpersonal Experiences And Continues To Subscribe To The Materialistic Monism Of Western Science.

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

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.

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

Economists And Workplace Consultants Regard It As Almost Unquestioned Dogma That People Are Motivated By Rewards, So They Don't Feel The Need To Test This. It Has The Status More Of Religious Truth Than Scientific Hypothesis. The Facts Are Absolutely Clear. There Is No Question That In Virtually All Circumstances In Which People Are Doing Things In Order To Get Rewards, Extrinsic Tangible Rewards Undermine Intrinsic Motivation.the Bonus Myth: How Paying For Results Can Backfire The World Is A Dangerous Place, Not Because Of Those Who Do Evil, But Because Of Those Who Look On And Do Nothing.

The Point Is To Develop The Childlike Inclination For Play And The Childlike Desire For Recognition And To Guide The Child Over To Important Fields For Society. Such A School Demands From The Teacher That He Be A Kind Of Artist In His Province.

I Came- Though The Child Of Entirely Irreligious (jewish) Parents - To A Deep Religiousness, Which, However, Reached An Abrupt End At The Age Of Twelve.

[asked About A Book In Which 100 Nazi Professors Charged Him With Scientific Error.] Were I Wrong, One Professor Would Have Been Quite Enough.

To Stimulate Creativity One Must Develop Childlike Inclination For Play And The Childlike Desire For Recognition.

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

Opening Your Mind

I Have No Extraordinary Ability. I'm Simply An Inquisitive Individual.

We Are In The Position Of A Little Child Entering A Huge Library, Whose Walls Are Covered To The Ceiling With Books In Many Different Languages. The Child Knows That Someone Must Have Written Those Books. It Does Not Know Who Or How. It Does Not Understand The The Languages In Which They Are Written. The Child Notes A Definite Plan In The Arrangement Of The Books, A Mysterious Order, Which It Does Not Comprehend But Only Dimly Suspects.

The True Sign Of Intelligence Is Not Knowledge But Imagination.

The Only Justifiable Purpose Of Political Institutions Is To Ensure The Unhindered Development Of The Individual.

If I Were To Start Taking Care Of My Grooming, I Would No Longer Be My Own Self... So The Hell With It... I Will Continue To Be Unconcerned About It, Which Surely Has The Advantage That I'm Left In Peace By Many A Fop Who Would Otherwise Come To See Me.

Scientists Were Rated As Great Heretics By The Church, But They Were Truly Religious Men Because Of Their Faith In The Orderliness Of The Universe.

It Is Very Difficult To Explain This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It. The Individual Feels The Nothingness Of Human Desires And Aims And The Sublimity And Marvelous Order Which Reveal Themselves Both In Nature And In The World Of Though. He Looks Upon Individual Existence As A Sort Of Prison And Wants To Experience The Universe As A Single Significant Whole.

Work Is The Only Thing That Gives Substance To Life.

Man Owes His Strength In The Struggle For Existence To The Fact That He Is A Social Animal.

It Is A Miracle That Curiosity Survives Formal Education.

... One Does People The Best Service By Giving Them Some Elevating Work To Do And Thus Indirectly Elevating Them.

Mathematics Are Well And Good But Nature Keeps Dragging Us Around By The Nose.

Considered Logically This Concept Is Not Identical With The Totality Of Sense Impressions Referred To; But It Is An Arbitrary Creation Of The Human (or Animal) Mind.

All Religions, Arts And Sciences Are Branches Of The Same Tree. All These Aspirations Are Directed Toward Ennobling Man's Life, Lifting It From The Sphere Of Mere Physical Existence And Leading The Individual Towards Freedom.

I Have Always Loved Solitude, A Trait Which Tends To Increase With Age.

When You Look At Yourself From A Universal Standpoint, Something Inside Always Reminds Or Informs You That There Are Bigger And Better Things To Worry About.

The Development Of General Ability For Independent Thinking And Judgment Should Always Be Placed Foremost, Not The Acquisition Of Special Knowledge.

The World As We See It Is Only The World As We See It. Others May See It Differently.

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.

You Imagine That I Look Back On My Life's Work With Calm Satisfaction. But From Nearby It Looks Quite Different. There Is Not A Single Concept Of Which I Am Convinced That It Will Stand Firm, And I Feel Uncertain Whether I Am In General On The Right Track.

I Never Teach My Pupils, I Only Attempt To Provide The Conditions In Which They Can Learn.

I Do Not Like To State An Opinion On A Matter Unless I Know The Precise Facts.

Philosophers Play With The Word, Like A Child With A Doll.... It Does Not Mean That Everything In Life Is Relative.

War Seems To Me To Be A Mean, Contemptible Thing: I Would Rather Be Hacked In Pieces Than Take Part In Such An Abominable Business. And Yet So High, In Spite Of Everything, Is My Opinion Of The Human Race That I Believe This Bogey Would Have Disappeared Long Ago, Had The Sound Sense Of The Nations Not Been Systematically Corrupted By Commercial And Political Interests Acting Through The Schools And The Press

As I Have Said So Many Times, God Doesn't Play Dice With The World.

Just As With The Man In The Fairy Tale Who Turned Whatever He Touched Into Gold, With Me Everything Is Turned Into Newspaper Clamor.

I See Only With Deep Regret That God Punishes So Many Of His Children For Their Numerous Stupidities, For Which Only He Himself Can Be Held Responsible; In My Opinion, Only His Nonexistence Could Excuse Him.

I Would Teach Peace Rather Than War, Love Rather Than Hate.

It Is Only To The Individual That A Soul Is Given.

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But This Year The Answers Are Different.

Since That Deluge Of Newspaper Articles I Have Been So Flooded With Questions, Invitations, Suggestions, That I Keep Dreaming I Am Roasting In Hell, And The Mailman Is The Devil Eternally Yelling At Me, Showering Me With More Bundles Of Letters At My Head Because I Have Not Answered The Old Ones.

The Human Mind Has First To Construct Forms, Independently, Before We Can Find Them In Things.

Anyone Can Repeat A Technical Explanation They Read In A Text-book Or Blog Post.

Members Of Legislative Bodies Are Selected By Political Parties, Largely Financed Or Otherwise Influenced By Private Capitalists Who, For All Practical Purposes, Separate The Electorate From The Legislature. The Consequence Is That The Representatives Of The People Do Not In Fact Sufficiently Protect The Interests Of The Underprivileged Sections Of The Population.

How I Wish That Somewhere There Existed An Island For Those Who Are Wise And Of Good Will.

Some Men Spend A Lifetime In An Attempt To Comprehend The Complexities Of Women. Others Pre-occupy Themselves With Somewhat Simpler Tasks, Such As Understanding The Theory Of Relativity!

Any Man Who Can Drive Safely While Kissing A Pretty Girl Is Simply Not Giving The Kiss The Attention It Deserves.

To My Mind, To Kill In War Is Not A Whit Better Than To Commit Ordinary Murder.

My Religion Consists Of A Humble Admiration Of The Illimitable Superior Spirit Who Reveals Himself In The Slight Details We Are Able To Perceive With Our Frail And Feeble Mind.

I Want To Go When I Want. It Is Tasteless To Prolong Life Artificially. I Have Done My Share, It Is Time To Go. I Will Do It Elegantly.

There Two Things That Are Infinite, Human Stupidity And The Universe, I Don't Know About The Universe

It Is Certainly True That Principles Cannot Be More Securely Founded Than On Experience And Consciously Clear Thinking.

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

Unlimited Competition Leads To A Huge Waste Of Labor, And To That Crippling Of The Social Consciousness Of Individuals.

We Must Learn The Difficult Lesson That The Future Of Mankind Will Only Be Tolerable When Our Course, In World Affairs As In Others, Is Based Upon Justice And Law Rather Than The Threat Of Naked Power.

If What Is Seen And Experienced Is Portrayed In The Language Of Logic, Then It Is Science. If It Is Communicated Through Forms Whose Connections Are Not Accessible To The Conscious Mind But Are Recognized Intuitively, Then It Is Art.

Don't Dream Of Being A Good Person, Be A Human Being Is Valuable And Gives Value To Life.

Nothing Will Benefit Human Health And Increase The Chances For Survival Of Life On Earth As Much As The Evolution To A Vegetarian Diet.

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I Cannot Write In English, Because Of The Treacherous Spelling. When I Am Reading, I Only Hear It And Am Unable To Remember What The Written Word Looks Like.

It Is Also A Natural Thing For A Serious Young Man That He Should Form For Himself As Precise An Idea As Possible Of The Goal Of His Desires.

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

It Would Be Better If You Began To Teach Others Only After You Yourself Have Learned Something.

God Casts The Die, Not The Dice.

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

I Was Supposed To Choose Apractical Profession, But This Was Simply Unbearable To Me.

Although I Have Been Prevented By Outward Circumstances From Observing A Strictly Vegetarian Diet, I Have Long Been An Adherent To The Cause In Principle. Besides Agreeing With The Aims Of Vegetarianism For Aesthetic And Moral Reasons, It Is My View That A Vegetarian Manner Of Living By Its Purely Physical Effect On The Human Temperament Would Most Beneficially Influence The Lot Of Mankind.

Vegetarian Diet

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

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

Everything You Can Imagine, Nature Has Already Created.

Generations To Come Will Find It Difficult To Believe That A Man Such As Gandhi Ever Walked The Face Of This Earth.

When I Examine Myself And My Methods Of Thought, I Come To The Conclusion That The Gift Of Fantasy Has Meant More To Me Than My Talent For Absorbing Positive Knowledge. (reading This Makes Me Wonder How Much Sooner Man Could Have Walked On The Moon... Had We Listened To A Child's Fantasies. It Is Truly A Pity That So Many Lose Their Gift Of Imagination To The Steady Hum Of The Status Quo.)

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