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This Crippling Of Individuals I Consider The Worst Evil Of Capitalism. Our Whole Educational System Suffers From This Evil. An Exaggerated Competitive Attitude Is Inculcated Into The Student, Who Is Trained To Worship Acquisitive Success As A Preparation For His Future.

-Albert Einstein

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This Crippling Of Individuals

Albert Einstein

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This Crippling Of Individuals I Consider The Worst Evil Of Capitalism. Our Whole Educational System Suffers From This Evil. An Exaggerated Competitive Attitude Is Inculcated Into The Student, Who Is Trained To Worship Acquisitive Success As A Preparation For His Future.

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Never Lose A Holy Curiosity.

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

Few People Are Capable Of Expressing With Equanimity Opinions Which Differ From The Prejudices Of Their Social Environment. Most People Are Even Incapable Of Forming Such Opinions.

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

A Theory Can Be Proved By Experiment; But No Path Leads From Experiment To The Birth Of A Theory.

Is It Not Better For A Man To Die For A Cause In Which He Believes, Such As Peace, Than To Suffer For A Cause In Which He Does Not Believe, Such As War?

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge. For Knowledge Is Limited To All We Now Know And Understand, While Imagination Embraces The Entire World, And All There Ever Will Be To Know And Understand.

The War Is Won, But The Peace Is Not.

Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today.

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Past Is Dead Future Is Uncertain; Present Is All You Have, So Eat, Drink And Live Merry.

Let Me Tell You What I Look Like: Pale Face, Long Hair, And A Tiny Start Of A Paunch. In Addition, An Awkward Gait, And A Cigar In The Mouth And A Pen In Pocket Or Hand.

.. 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 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.

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

School Failed Me, And I Failed The School. It Bored Me. The Teachers Behaved Like Feldwebel (sergeants). I Wanted To Learn What I Wanted To Know, But They Wanted Me To Learn For The Exam. What I Hated Most Was The Competitive System There, And Especially Sports. Because Of This, I Wasn't Worth Anything, And Several Times They Suggested I Leave.

In Science, Moreover, The Work Of The Individual Is So Bound Up With That Of His Scientific Predecessors And Contemporaries That It Appears Almost As An Impersonal Product Of His Generation.

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.

In The Midst Of Difficulty Lies Opportunity.

Capitalism Creates A Huge Community Of Producers Who Are Unceasingly Striving To Deprive Each Other Of The Fruits Of Their Collective Labor, And An Oligarchy That Cannot Be Effectively Checked Even By A Democratically Organized Society....the Subjugation Is Not By Force But Because The Privileged Class Has Long Ago Established A System Of Values By Which The People Were Thenceforth, To A Large Extent Unconsciously, Guided In Their Social Behavior.

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

Ethics And Morals

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Time Has No Independent Existence Apart From The Order Of Events By Which We Measure It.

Science Has Brought Forth This Danger, But The Real Problem Is In The Minds And Hearts Of Men.

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Convictions Can Best Be Supported With Experience And Clear Thinking.

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