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The Conscientious Objector Is A Revoultionary. On Deciding To Disobey The Law He Sacrifices His Personal Interests To The Most Important Cause Of Working For The Betterment Of Society.

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The Conscientious Objector Is

Albert Einstein

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The Conscientious Objector Is A Revoultionary. On Deciding To Disobey The Law He Sacrifices His Personal Interests To The Most Important Cause Of Working For The Betterment Of Society.

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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.

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.

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

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I Appeal To All Men And Women, Whether They Be Eminent Or Humble, To Declare That They Will Refuse To Give Any Further Assistance To War Or The Preparation Of War.

There Does, In Fact, Appear To Be A Plan.

There Is Nothing Known As "perfect". Its Only Those Imperfections Which We Choose Not To See!!

To One Bent On Age, Death Will Come As A Release. I Feel This Quite Strongly Now That I Have Grown Old Myself And Have Come To Regard Death Like An Old Debt, At Long Last To Be Discharged.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. Imagination Is The Language Of The Soul. Pay Attention To Your Imagination And You Will Discover All You Need To Be Fulfilled.

If You Are Out To Describe The Truth, Leave Elegance To The Tailor. On Being Reproached That His Formula Of Gravitation Was Longer And More Cumbersome Than Newton's.

The Wing Structure Of The Hornet, In Relation To Its Weight, Is Not Suitable For Flight, But He Does Not Know This And Flies Anyway.

In Two Weeks The Sheeplike Masses Of Any Country Can Be Worked Up By The Newspapers Into Such A State Of Excited Fury That Men Are Prepared To Put On Uniforms And Kill And Be Killed, For The Sake Of The Sordid Ends Of A Few Interested Parties. Compulsory Military Service Seems To Me The Most Disgraceful Symptom Of That Deficiency In Personal Dignity From Which Civilized Mankind Is Suffering Today.

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

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?

There Is No Logical Way To The Discovery Of These Elemental Laws. There Is Only The Way Of Intuition, Which Is Helped By A Feeling For The Order Lying Behind The Appearance.

Marvellous, What Ideas The Young People Have These Days. But I Don't Believe A Word Of It.

Imagination Without Knowledge May Create Beautiful Things, Knowledge Without Imagination Can Create Only Perfect Ones.

Those Who Believe That Politics And Religion Do Not Mix, Understand Neither.

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Check Out Not To Become A Man Or Woman Of Achievement, But Instead Seek To Become A Particular Person Of Price.

I Do Not Believe In Immortality Of The Individual, And I Consider Ethics To Be An Exclusively Human Concern With No Superhuman Authority Behind It.

I Believe My Theory Of Relativity To Be True. But It Will Only Be Proved For Certain In 1981, When I Am Dead.

Overemphasis Of The Competitive System And Premature Specialization On The Ground Of Immediate Usefulness Kill The Spirit On Which All Cultural Life Depends, Specialized Knowledge Included.

My Pacifism Is An Instinctive Feeling, A Feeling That Possesses Me Because The Murder Of Men Is Disgusting. My Attitude Is Not Derived From Any Intellectual Theory But Is Based On My Deepest Antipathy To Every Kind Of Cruelty And Hatred.

The Woman Who Follows The Crowd Will Usually Believe That I Said This.

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Convictions Can Best Be Supported With Experience And Clear Thinking.

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

Matter Is Spirit Reduced To Point Of Visibility.

Consider The Concepts Referred To In The Words 'where', 'when', 'why', 'being', To The Elucidation Of Which Innumerable Volumes Of Philosophy Have Been Devoted. We Fare No Better In Our Speculations Than A Fish Which Should Strive To Become Clear As To What Is Water.

Figuring Out How To Think About The Problem.

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

One Had To Cram All This Stuff Into One's Mind For The Examinations, Whether One Liked It Or Not. This Coercion Had Such A Deterring Effect On Me That, After I Had Passed The Final Examination, I Found The Consideration Of Any Scientific Problems Distasteful To Me For An Entire Year.

The Majority Of The Stupid Is Invincible And Guaranteed For All Time. The Terror Of Their Tyranny, However, Is Alleviated By Their Lack Of Consistency.

The History Of Scientific And Technical Discovery Teaches Us That The Human Race Is Poor In Independent And Creative Imagination. Even When The External And Scientific Requirements For The Birth Of An Idea Have Long Been There, It Generally Needs An External Stimulus To Make It Actually Happen; Man Has, So To Speak, To Stumble Right Up Against The Thing Before The Idea Comes.

Any Fool Can Know. The Point Is To Understand.

Without Creative, Independently Thinking And Judging Personalities The Upward Development Of Society Is As Unthinkable As The Development Of The Individual Personality Without The Nourishing Soil Of The Community.

Measured Objectively, What A Man Can Wrest From Truth By Passionate Striving Is Utterly Infinitesimal. But The Striving Frees Us From The Bonds Of The Self And Makes Us Comrades Of Those Who Are The Best And The Greatest.

The Dog Is Very Smart. He Feels Sorry For Me Because I Receive So Much Mail; That's Why He Tries To Bite The Mailman.

The Man Of Science Is A Poor Philosopher.

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

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.

Gradually The Conviction Gained Recognition That All Knowledge About Things Is Exclusively A Working-over Of The Raw Material Furnished By The Senses. ... Galileo And Hume First Upheld This Principle With Full Clarity And Decisiveness.

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.

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!

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

Growth Comes Through Analogy; Through Seeing How Things Connect, Rather Than Only Seeing How They Might Be Different.

The Only Way To Escape The Personal Corruption Of Praise Is To Go On Working. One Is Tempted To Stop And Listen To It. The Only Thing Is To Turn Away And Go On Working. Work. There Is Nothing Else.

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Galileo Had Already Made A Significant Beginning Toward A Knowledge Of The Law Of Motion. He Discovered The Law Of Inertia And The Law Of Bodies Falling Freely In The Gravitational Field Of The Earth.

If You Can't Explain It Simply, You Don't Understand It Well Enough.

I Love To Travel, But Hate To Arrive.

If You Want To Find Out Anything From The Theoretical Physicists About The Methods They Use, I Advise You To Stick Closely To One Principle: Don't Listen To Their Words, Fix Your Attention On Their Deeds. To Him Who Is A Discoverer In This Field The Products Of His Imagination Appear So Necessary And Natural That He Regards Them, And Would Like To Have Them Regarded By Others, Not As Creations Of Thought But As Given Realities.

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Intuitive Powers Played A Central Role In My Scientific Work, Not Wild Speculation, Yet A Valued Resource When No Other Approach Was Available.

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I Believe In Intuition And Inspiration. Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. For Knowledge Is Limited, Whereas Imagination Embraces The Entire World, Stimulating Progress, Giving Birth To Evolution. It Is, Strictly Speaking, A Real Factor In Scientific Research.

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The State Exists For Man, Not Man For The State. The Same May Be Said Of Science. These Are Old Phrases, Coined By People Who Saw In Human Individuality The Highest Human Value. I Would Hesitate To Repeat Them, Were It Not For The Ever Recurring Danger That They May Be Forgotten, Especially In These Days Of Organization And Stereotypes.

My Political Ideal Is Democracy. Let Every Man Be Respected As An Individual And No Man Idolized.

So Would A Being, Endowed With Higher Insight And More Perfect Intelligence, Watching Man And His Doings, Smile About Man's Illusion That He Was Acting According To His Own Free Will.

Classical Thermodynamics ... Is The Only Physical Theory Of Universal Content Which I Am Convinced ... Will Never Be Overthrown.

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The Individual Feels The Vanity Of Human Desires And Aims, And The Nobility And Marvelous Order Which Are Revealed In Nature And In The World Of Thought. He Feels The Individual Destiny As An Imprisonment And Seeks To Experience The Totality Of Existence As A Unity Full Of Significance.

I Think That Only Daring Speculation Can Lead Us Further And Not Accumulation Of Facts.

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

We Cannot Despair About Mankind Knowing That Mozart Was A Man.

Gravity Is A Response To Geometry.

The American Lives Even More For His Goals, For The Future, Than The European. Life For Him Is Always Becoming, Never Being.

Common Sense Is The Collection Of Prejudices Acquired By Age Eighteen.

As A Human Being, One Has Been Endowed With Just Enough Intelligence To Be Able To See Clearly How Utterly Inadequate That Intelligence Is When Confronted With What Exists.

Although I Tried To Be Universal In Thought, I Am European By Instinct And Inclination.

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.

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Artists And Creative Workers - People Who Have Accomplished Work Worthwhile Have Had A Very High Sense Of The Way To Do Things. They Haven't Been Contented With Mediocrity. They Haven't Confined Themselves To The Beaten Tracks; They Have Never Been Satisfied To Do Things Just As Others Do Them, But Always A Little Better. Few Are Those Who See With Their Own Eyesand Feel With Their Own Hearts.

I Am A Determinist. As Such, I Do Not Believe In Free Will. The Jews Believe In Free Will. They Believe That Man Shapes His Own Life. I Reject That Doctrine Philosophically. In That Respect I Am Not A Jew.

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It Followed From The Special Theory Of Relativity That Mass And Energy Are Both But Different Manifestations Of The Same Thing - A Somewhat Unfamiliar Conception For The Average Mind. Furthermore, The Equation E = Mc², In Which Energy Is Put Equal To Mass, Multiplied By The Square Of The Velocity Of Light, Showed That Very Small Amounts Of Mass May Be Converted Into A Very Large Amount Of Energy And Vice Versa.

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.

I'm More Interested In The Future Than In The Past, Because The Future Is Where I Intend To Live.

My God May Not Be Your Idea Of God, But One Thing I Know Of My God He Makes Me A Humanitarian. I Am A Proud Jew Because We Gave The World The Bible And The Story Of Joseph.

The Sceptic Will Say, 'it May Well Be True That This System Of Equations Is Reasonable From A Logical Standpoint, But This Does Not Prove That It Corresponds To Nature.' You Are Right, Dear Sceptic. Experience Alone Can Decide On Truth.

The Future Is Not A Gift-it Is An Achievement.

Man Is, At One And The Same Time, A Solitary Being And A Social Being.

I Am Neither Especially Clever Nor Especially Gifted. I Am Only Very, Very Curious.

Dostoevsky Gives Me More Than Any Scientist, More Than Gauss.

Even If Only 2 Percent Of Those Assigned To Perform Military Service Should Announce Their Refusal To Fight, Governments Would Be Powerless, They Would Not Dare Send Such A Large Number Of People To Jail.

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When We First Got Married, We Made A Pact. It Was This: In Our Life Together, It Was Decided I Would Make All Of The Big Decisions And My Wife Would Make All Of The Little Decisions. For Fifty Years, We Have Held True To That Agreement. I Believe That Is The Reason For The Success In Our Marriage. However, The Strange Thing Is That In Fifty Years, There Hasn’t Been One Big Decision.

My Scientific Work Is Motivated By An Irresistible Longing To Understand The Secrets Of Nature And By No Other Feeling. My Love For Justice And Striving To Contribute Towards The Improvement Of Human Conditions Are Quite Independent From My Scientific Interests.

There Is No Vaccine Against Stupidity.

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

Coincidences Are God's Way Of Staying Anonymous.

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What Good Is A Reputation Not Put To Good Use.

Our Entire Much-praised Technological Progress, And Civilization Generally, Could Be Compared To An Axe In The Hand Of A Pathological Criminal.

Between The Difficulties, One Hides The Opportunity

Joy In Looking And Comprehending Is Nature's Most Beautiful Gift.

We Act As Though Comfort And Luxury Were The Chief Requirements Of Life. All That We Need To Make Us Happy Is Something To Be Enthusiastic About.

Remember Today, For It Is The Beginning Of Always. Today Marks The Start Of A Brave New Future Filled With All Your Dreams Can Hold. Think Truly To The Future And Make Those Dreams Come True.

To Be Free Means To Be Independent, Not To Be Influenced By What Others Think And Say.

One Always Likes To Do The Things For Which One Has Ability.

It Is, In Fact, Nothing Short Of A Miracle That The Modern Methods Of Instruction Have Not Yet Entirely Strangled The Holy Curiosity Of Inquiry; For This Delicate Little Plant, Aside From Stimulation, Stands Mainly In Need Of Freedom; Without This It Goes To Wrack And Ruin Without Fail. It Is A Grave Mistake To Think That The Enjoyment Of Seeing And Searching Can Be Promoted By Means Of Coercion And A Sense Of Duty.

Out Yonder There Is This Huge World, Which Exists Independently Of Us Human Beings And Which Stands Before Us Like A Great, Eternal Riddle, At Least Partially Accessible To Our Inspection And Thinking

The Only Thing We Can Be Certain Of In This Life Is That We Can Be Certain Of Nothing.

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I Simply Imagine It So, Then Go About To Prove It.

The State Was Made For Man, Not Man For State.

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

The Tyranny Of The Ignoramuses Is Insurmountable And Assured For All Time.

I See In Nature A Magnificent Structure... That Must Fill A Thinking Person With A Feeling Of Humility.

Anybody Who Really Wants To Abolish War Must Resolutely Declare Himself In Favor Of His Own Country's Resigning A Portion Of Sovereignty In Place Of International Institutions.

I Know What It's Like To See One's Mother Go Through The Agony Of Death And Be Unable To Help; There Is No Consolation. We All Have To Bear Such Heavy Burdens, For They Are Unalterably Linked To Life.

Solutions To Tough Problems Should Be Made As Simple As Possible - And No Simpler.

If The Bees Disappear, Man Would Have Only Four Years Of Life Left.

Creative Energy Is More Critical Than Learning.

It Was, Of Course, A Lie What You Read About My Religious Convictions, A Lie Which Is Being Systematically Repeated. I Do Not Believe In A Personal God And I Have Never Denied This But Have Expressed It Clearly. 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.

It Should Be Possible To Explain The Laws Of Physics To A Barmaid.

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

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 Must Try, However, As Best I Can, Although I Am Very Conscious Of The Fact That Our Feelings And Strivings Are Often Contradictory And Obscure And That They Cannot Be Expressed In Easy And Simple Formulas.

Innovation Is Not The Product Of Logical Thought, Even Though The Final Product Is Tied To A Logical Structure.

It Followed From The Special Theory Of Relativity That Mass And Energy Are Both But Different Manifestations Of The Same Thing...

Without The Sense Of Fellowship With Men Of Like Mind, Of Preoccupation With The Objective, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Research, Life Would Have Seemed To Me Empty.

I Have Only Two Rules Which I Regard As Principles Of Conduct. The First Is: Have No Rules. The Second Is: Be Independent Of The Opinion Of Others.

I Am An Adherent Of The Ideal Of Democracy, Although I Well Know The Weaknesses Of The Democratic Form Of Government. Social Equality And Economic Protection Of The Individual Appeared To Me Always As The Important Communal Aims Of The State. Although I Am A Typical Loner In Daily Life, My Consciousness Of Belonging To The Invisible Community Of Those Who Strive For Truth, Beauty, And Justice Has Preserved Me From Feeling Isolated.

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.

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 Greater The Doubt, The Greater The Awakening

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.

E=mc2. Energy Equals Mass Times The Speed Of Light Squared

Coincidence Is God's Way Of Remaining Anonymous.

Future Medicine Will Be The Medicine Of Frequencies.

The Only Race I Know Is The Human One.

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

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.

Scientists Investigate That Which Already Is; Engineers Create That Which Has Never Been.

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

Make Everything As Simple As Possible, But Not Simpler.

There Is Possibility In Every Difficulty.

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.

... 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.

One Should Not Pursue Goals That Are Easily Achieved. One Must Develop An Instinct For What One Can Just Barely Achieve Through One’s Greatest Efforts.

I Want To Know All God's Thoughts.

Concern For Man And His Fate Must Always Form The Chief Interest Of All Technical Endeavors. Never Forget This In The Midst Of Your Diagrams And Equations.

Keep Fighting Until The Last Buzzer Sounds.

Mere Praise Of Peace Is Easy And Ineffective. What Is Needed Is Acitve Participation In The Fight Against War And Everything Which Leads To It.

I Have Never Looked Upon Ease And Happiness As Ends In Themselves - This Critical Basis I Call The Ideal Of A Pigsty. The Ideals That Have Lighted My Way, And Time After Time Have Given Me New Courage To Face Life Cheerfully, Have Been Kindness, Beauty, And Truth. Without The Sense Of Kinship With Men Of Like Mind, Without The Occupation With The Objective World, The Eternally Unattainable In The Field Of Art And Scientific Endeavors, Life Would Have Seemed Empty To Me. The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts - Possessions, Outward Success, Luxury - Have Always Seemed To Me Contemptible.

The Religion Of The Future Will Be Cosmic Religion. It Will Transcend Personal God And Avoid Dogma And Theology.

The Longing To Behold This Pre-established Harmony [of Phenomena And Theoretical Principles] Is The Source Of The Inexhaustible Patience And Perseverance With Which Planck Has Devoted Himself ... The State Of Mind Which Enables A Man To Do Work Of This Kind Is Akin To That Of The Religious Worshiper Or The Lover; The Daily Effort Comes From No Deliberate Intention Or Program, But Straight From The Heart.

It Is Not So Very Important For A Person To Learn Facts. For That He Does Not Really Need A College. He Can Learn Them From Books. The Value Of An Education In A Liberal Arts College Is Not Learning Of Many Facts But The Training Of The Mind To Think Something That Cannot Be Learned From Textbooks.

You Can't Use An Old Map To Explore A New World.

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.

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.

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.

Well, I Have Considered Myself To Be Very Fortunate In That I Have Been Able To Do Mostly Only That Which My Inner Self Told Me To Do... I Am Also Aware That I Do Receive Much Criticism From The Outside World For What I Do And Some People Actually Get Angry At Me. But This Does Not Really Touch Me Because I Feel That These People Do Not Live In He Same World As Do I.

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.

Only Two Things Are Infinite, The Universe And Human Stupidity, And I'm Not Sure About The Former.

Man, Surrounded By Facts, Permitting Himself No Surprise, No Intuitive Flash, No Great Hypothesis, No Risk, Is In A Locked Cell. Ignorance Cannot Seal The Mind And Imagination More Securely.

Nothing Happens Til Something Moves.

During The Youthful Period Of Mankind's Spiritual Evolution Human Fantasy Created Gods In Man's Own Image, Who, By The Operations Of Their Will Were Supposed To Determine, Or At Any Rate To Influence, The Phenomenal World. Man Sought To Alter The Disposition Of These Gods In His Own Favour By Means Of Magic And Prayer.

One Reason Why Mathematics Enjoys Special Esteem,above All Other Sciences,is That Its Laws Are Absolutely Certain And Indisputable,while Those Of All Other Sciences Are To Some Extent Debatable And In Constant Danger Of Being Overthrown By Newly Discovered Facts.

Children Don’t Heed The Life Experiences Of Their Parents, And Nations Ignore History. Bad Lessons Always Have To Be Learned Anew.

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