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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

-Albert Einstein

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War Seems To Me

Albert Einstein

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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

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Science Can Only State What Is, Not What Should Be.

How Can It Be That Mathematics, Being After All A Product Of Human Thought Which Is Independent Of Experience, Is So Admirably Appropriate To The Objects Of Reality?

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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If This Being Is Omnipotent, Then Every Occurrence, Including Every Human Action, Every Human Thought, And Every Human Feeling And Aspiration Is Also His Work; How Is It Possible To Think Of Holding Men Responsible For Their Deeds And Thoughts Before Such An Almighty Being? In Giving Out Punishment And Rewards He Would To A Certain Extent Be Passing Judgment On Himself. How Can This Be Combined With The Goodness And Righteousness Ascribed To Him?

It Is Quite Clear To Me That The Religious Paradise Of Youth, Which [i] Lost, Was A First Attempt To Free Myself From The Chains Of The 'merely Personal,' From An Existence Which Is Dominated By Wishes, Hopes, And Primitive Feelings.

I Want To Gods Thoughts, The Rest Are Details.

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.

From The Viewpoint Of A Jesuit Priest I Am, Of Course, And Have Always Been An Atheist.

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We Cannot Solve Our Problems With The Same Thinking We Used When We Created Them.

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Mere Thinking Cannot Reveal To Us The Highest Purpose.

Nothing Happens Til Something Moves.

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Desire For Approval And Recognition Is A Healthy Motive, But The Desire To Be Acknowledged As Better, Stronger, Or More Intelligent Than A Fellow Being Or Fellow Scholar Easily Leads To An Excessively Egoistic Psychological Adjustment, Which May Become Injurious For The Individual And For The Community.

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