Background Image

...

We Come Now To The Question: What Is A Priori Certain Or Necessary, Respectively In Geometry (doctrine Of Space) Or Its Foundations? Formerly We Thought Everything; Nowadays We Think Nothing. Already The Distance-concept Is Logically Arbitrary; There Need Be No Things That Correspond To It, Even Approximately.

-Albert Einstein

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

We Come Now To

Albert Einstein

...

We Come Now To The Question: What Is A Priori Certain Or Necessary, Respectively In Geometry (doctrine Of Space) Or Its Foundations? Formerly We Thought Everything; Nowadays We Think Nothing. Already The Distance-concept Is Logically Arbitrary; There Need Be No Things That Correspond To It, Even Approximately.

Views: 6

Topic

More From Albert Einstein

When A Man Is Sufficiently Motivated, Discipline Will Take Care Of Itself.

A Person Who Never Made A Mistake Never Tried Anything New.

A Human Being Is A Part Of The Whole Called By Us Universe; A Part Limited In Time And Space. He Experiences Himself, His Thoughts, And His Feelings As Something Separate From The Rest - A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of Consciousness.

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

Live Life To The Fullest. You Have To Color Outside The Lines Once In A While If You Want To Make Your Life A Masterpiece. Laugh Some Every Day. Keep Growing, Keep Dreaming, Keep Following Your Heart. The Important Thing Is Not To Stop Questioning.

Things You Can Get Access To, You Should Never Memorize.

I Shall Never Believe That God Plays Dice With The World.

The Definition Of Genius Is Taking The Complex And Making It Simple.

The Process Of Scientific Discovery Is, In Effect, A Continual Flight From Wonder.

God Is A Scientist, Not A Magician.

Time Does Not Exist - We Invented It

The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Ignorance Is Arrogance

Any Brief Military Advantage The Usa Might Gain With Nuclear Weapons Would Be Offset By Political And Psychological Losses And Damage To American Prestige. The United States Might Even Touch Off A Worldwide Armaments Race.

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

Where You See Difficulty, I See Opportunity.

It Is My Belief That The Problem Of Bringing Peace To The World On A Supranational Basis Will Be Solved Only By Employing Gandhi's Method On A Larger Scale.

[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.

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 Question That Drives Me Hazy Is Whether It Is I Or Others Who Is Crazy.

One Is Born Into A Herd Of Buffaloes And Must Be Glad If One Is Not Trampled Under Foot Before One's Time.

Creativity Is One Of Those Hypnotic Words Which Are Prone To Cast A Spell Upon Our Understanding And Dissolve Our Thinking Into Haze.

Once You Can Accept The Universe As Matter Expanding Into Nothing That Is Something, Wearing Stripes With Plaid Comes Easy.

The Payment Of The Worker Is Not Determined By The Value Of His Product.

There Have Already Been Published By The Bucketsful Such Brazen Lies And Utter Fictions About Me That I Would Long Since Have Gone To My Grave If I Had Allowed Myself To Pay Attention To Them.

You Cannot Simultaneously Prevent And Prepare For War. The Very Prevention Of War Requires More Faith, Courage And Resolution Than Are Needed To Prepare For War. We Must All Do Our Share, That We May Be Equal To The Task Of Peace.

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun.

It Was The Experience Of Mystery - Even If Mixed With Fear - That Engendered Religion.

I Have Tried 99 Times And Have Failed, But On The 100th Time Came Success.

How Many People Are Trapped In Their Everyday Habits: Part Numb, Part Frightened, Part Indifferent? To Have A Better Life We Must Keep Choosing How We Are Living.

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.

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

I Do Not At All Believe In Human Freedom In The Philosophical Sense... Schopenhauer’s Saying, ‘a Man Can Do What He Wants, But Not Will What He Wants,’ Has Been A Very Real Inspiration To Me Since My Youth; It Has Been A Continual Consolation In The Face Of Life’s Hardships, My Own And Others’, And An Unfailing Wellspring Of Tolerance. This Realization Mercifully Mitigates The Easily Paralyzing Sense Of Responsibility And Prevents Us From Taking Ourselves And Other People Too Seriously; It Is Conducive To A View Of Life Which, In Part, Gives Humour Its Due.

I'm Not A Genius. I'm Just Passionately Curious.

The Beauty Of It Is That We Have To Content Ourselves With The Recognition Of The Miracle, Beyond Which There Is No Legitimate Way Out.

I Have Little Patience With Scientists Who Take A Board Of Wood, Look For Its Thinnest Part, And Drill A Great Number Of Holes Where Drilling Is Easy.

The World Will Not Evolve Past Its Current State Of Crisis By Using The Same Thinking That Created The Situation.

The Idea Of A Being Who Interferes With The Sequence Of Events In The World Is Absolutely Impossible

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.

Thinking Is Hard Work; That's Why So Few Do It.

Cherish The Questions, For The Answers Keep Changing.

Anyone Can Be A Genius, If They Pick Just One Specific Subject And Study It Diligently Just 15 Minutes Each Day.

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

There Comes A Time When The Mind Takes A Higher Plane Of Knowledge But Can Never Prove How It Got There.

There Is No Salvation For Civilization, Or Even The Human Race, Other Than The Creation Of A World Government.

World Government

Genius Simply Cannot Be Reduced To A Set Of Rules For Anyone To Follow.

Realising The Healthy International Relations Can Be Created Only Among Populations Made Up Of Individuals Who Themselves Are Healthy And Enjoy A Measure A Independence, The United Nations Elaborated A Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Which Was Adopted By The U.n. General Assembly On December 10, 1948.

Newton Did Not Know What Happened To The Apple, And I Can Prove This When The Next Eclipse Comes.

To The Master's Honor All Must Turn, Each In Its Track, Without A Sound, Forever Tracing Newton's Ground.

I Do Not Believe That A Moral Philosophy Can Ever Be Founded On A Scientific Basis. … The Valuation Of Life And All Its Nobler Expressions Can Only Come Out Of The Soul’s Yearning Toward Its Own Destiny. Every Attempt To Reduce Ethics To Scientific Formulas Must Fail. Of That I Am Perfectly Convinced.

I Make It A Rule Not To Clutter My Mind With Simple Information That I Can Find In A Book In Five Minutes.

In My View, It Is The Most Important Function Of Art And Science To Awaken This Feeling And Keep It Alive In Those Who Are Capable Of It.

Marriage Is But Slavery Made To Appear Civilized.

By Academic Freedom I Understand The Right To Search For Truth And To Publish And Teach What One Holds To Be True. This Right Implies Also A Duty: One Must Not Conceal Any Part Of What On Has Recognized To Be True. It Is Evident That Any Restriction On Academic Freedom Acts In Such A Way As To Hamper The Dissemination Of Knowledge Among The People And Thereby Impedes National Judgment And Action.

Good Acts Are Like Good Poems. One May Easily Get Their Drift, But They Are Not Rationally Understood.

You Cannot Love A Car The Way You Love A Horse. The Horse Brings Out Human Feelings The Way Machines Cannot Do. Things Like Machines May Develop Or Neglect Certain Things In People ... Machines Make Our Life Impersonal And Stultify Certain Elements In Us And Create An Impersonal Environment.

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.

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.

You Ask Me If I Keep A Notebook To Record My Great Ideas. I've Only Ever Had One.

I Am Truly A "lone Traveler" And Have Never Belonged To My Country, My Home, My Friends, Or Even My Immediate Family, With My Whole Heart.

To Get To Know A Country, You Must Have Direct Contact With The Earth. It's Futile To Gaze At The World Through A Car Window.

To Act Intelligently In Human Affairs Is Only Possible If An Attempt Is Made To Understand The Thoughts, Motives, And Apprehension Of One's Opponent So Fully That One Can See The World Through Their Eyes.

Knowledge Of What Is Does Not Open The Door Directly To What Should Be.

My Position Concerning God Is That Of An Agnostic.

Reward And Punishment

Hunger, Love, Pain, Fear Are Some Of Those Inner Forces Which Rule The Individual's Instinct For Self Preservation.

The Same Thinking That Has Led You To Where You Are Is Not Going To Lead You To Where You Want To Go.

To Know What Is Impenetrable To Us Really Exists, Manifesting Itself As The Highest Wisdom And The Most Radiant Beauty... This Knowledge, This Feeling Is At The Center Of True Religiousness.

What Use Are Socks? They Only Produce Holes.

The Most Valuable Thing A Teacher Can Impart To Children Is Not Knowledge And Understanding Per Se But A Longing For Knowledge And Understanding, And An Appreciation For Intellectual Values, Whether They Be Artistic, Scientific, Or Moral. It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge. Most Teachers Waste Their Time By Asking Questions That Are Intended To Discover What A Pupil Does Not Know, Whereas The True Art Of Questioning Is To Discover What The Pupil Does Know Or Is Capable Of Knowing.

From A Certain Temperature On, The Molecules 'condense' Without Attractive Forces; That Is, They Accumulate At Zero Velocity. The Theory Is Pretty, But Is There Some Truth In It.

True Religion Is Real Living; Living With All One's Soul, With All One's Goodness And Righteousness.

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.

Games Are The Most Elevated Form Of Investigation.

I Speak To Everyone In The Same Way, Whether He Is The Garbage Man Or The President Of The University.

Any Power Must Be An Enemy Of Mankind Which Enslaves The Individual By Power And By Force, Whether It Arises Under The Fascist Or The Communist Flag. All That Is Valuable In Human Society Depends Upon The Opportunity For Development Accorded To The Individual.

Modern Education Is Competitive, Nationalistic And Separative. It Has Trained The Child To Regard Material Values As Of Major Importance, To Believe That His Nation Is Also Of Major Importance And Superior To Other Nations And Peoples. The General Level Of World Information Is High But Usually Biased, Influenced By National Prejudices, Serving To Make Us Citizens Of Our Nation But Not Of The World.

My Only Genius Talent Is Inquisitiveness.

Morality Is Of The Highest Importance - But For Us, Not For God.

Knowledge Exists In Two Forms - Lifeless, Stored In Books, And Alive, In The Consciousness Of Men. The Second Form Of Existence Is After All The Essential One; The First, Indispensable As It May Be, Occupies Only An Inferior Position.

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

A True Genius Admits That He/she Knows Nothing.

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.

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.

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

I Became More And More Convinced That Even Nature Could Be Understood As A Relatively Simple Mathematical Structure.

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

He Who Joyfully Marches To Music In Rank And File Has Already Earned My Contempt. He Has Been Given A Large Brain By Mistake, Since For Him The Spinal Cord Would Fully Suffice. This Disgrace To Civilization Should Be Done Away With At Once. Heroism At Command, Senseless Brutality, Deplorable Love-of-country Stance, How Violently I Hate All This, How Despicable And Ignoble War Is; I Would Rather Be Torn To Shreds Than Be A Part Of So Base An Action! It Is My Conviction That Killing Under The Cloak Of War Is Nothing But An Act Of Murder.

The Truth Of A Theory Is In Your Mind, Not In Your Eyes.

If I Could Do It All Again, I'd Be A Plumber.

At Present Every Coachman And Every Waiter Argues About Whether Or Not The Relativity Theory Is Correct.

It's No Accident That Capitalism Has Brought With It Progress, Not Merely In Production But Also In Knowledge. Egoism And Competition Are, Alas, Stronger Forces Than Public Spirit And Sense Of Duty.

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

For Every One Billion Particles Of Antimatter There Were One Billion And One Particles Of Matter. And When The Mutual Annihilation Was Complete, One Billionth Remained - And That's Our Present Universe.

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.

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

Selection [of Un Delegates] By Governments Cannot Give The Peoples Of The World The Feeling Of Being Fairly And Proportionately Represented. The Moral Authority Of The Un Would Be Considerable Enhanced If The Delegates Were Elected Directly By The People. Were They Responsible To An Electorate, They Would Have Much More Freedom To Follow Their Consciences.

I Consider It Important, Indeed Urgently Necessary, For Intellectual Workers To Get Together, Both To Protect Their Own Economic Status And, Also, Generally Speaking, To Secure Their Influence In The Political Field.

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

There Comes A Point In Your Life When You Need To Stop Reading Other People's Books And Write Your Own.

Humiliation And Mental Oppression By Ignorant And Selfish Teachers Wreak Havoc In The Youthful Mind That Can Never Be Undone And Often Exert A Baleful Influence In Later Life.

Persistence Is The Most Powerful Force On Earth, It Can Move Mountains.

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.

It Almost Seems To Me That Man Was Not Born To Be A Carnivore.

One Cannot Learn So Well As By Experiencing It Oneself.

I Must Seem Like An Ostrich Who Forever Burries Its Head In The Relativistic Sands In Order Not To Face The Evil Quanta.

The Word God Is For Me Nothing More Than The Expression And Product Of Human Weaknesses.

A Knowledge Of The Existence Of Something We Cannot Penetrate, Of The Manifestations Of The Profoundest Reason And The Most Radiant Beauty - It Is This Knowledge And This Emotion That Constitute The Truly Religious Attitude; In This Sense, And In This Alone, I Am A Deeply Religious Man.

The World We Have Created Is A Product Of Our Thinking.

I Have Reached An Age Where If Someone Tells Me To Wear Socks, I Dont Have To

The Horizon Of Many People Is A Circle With A Radius Of Zero. They Call This Their Point Of View.

Whoever Is Devoid Of The Capacity To Wonder, Whoever Remains Unmoved, Whoever Cannot Contemplate Or Know The Deep Shudder Of The Soul In Enchantment, Might Just As Well Be Dead For He Has Already Closed His Eyes Upon Life.

One Of The Strongest Motives That Lead Men To Art And Science Is Escape From Everyday Life With Its Painful Crudity And Hopeless Dreariness, From The Fetters Of One's Own Ever-shifting Desires. A Finely Tempered Nature Longs To Escape From The Personal Life Into The World Of Objective Perception And Thought.

Brief Is This Existence, As A Visit In A Strange House. The Path To Be Pursued Is Poorly Lit By A Flickering Consciousness.

There Is A Driving Force More Powerful Than Steam, Electricity And Nuclear Power: The Will.

Give Back To The World At Least What You've Received.

All Our Thoughts And Concepts Are Called Up By Sense-experiences And Have A Meaning Only In Reference To These Sense-experiences. On The Other Hand, However, They Are Products Of The Spontaneous Activity Of Our Minds; They Are Thus In No Wise Logical Consequences Of The Contents Of These Sense-experiences. If, Therefore, We Wish To Grasp The Essence Of A Complex Of Abstract Notions We Must For The One Part Investigate The Mutual Relationships Between The Concepts And The Assertions Made About Them; For The Other, We Must Investigate How They Are Related To The Experiences.

The Important Things Are Always Simple.

If You Can't Explain What You Are Doing To A Nine-year-old, Then Either You Still Don't Understand It Very Well, Or It's Not All That Worthwile In The First Place.

I Believe, Indeed, That Overemphasis On The Purely Intellectual Attitude, Often Directed Solely To The Practical And Factual, In Our Education, Has Led Directly To The Impairment Of Ethical Values.

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

What I'm Really Interested In Is Whether God Could Have Made The World In A Different Way; That Is, Whether The Necessity Of Logical Simplicity Leaves Any Freedom At All.

Germany Had The Misfortune Of Becoming Poisoned, First Because Of Plenty, And Then Because Of Want.

There Is, Fortunately, A Minority Composed Of Those Who Recognize Early In Their Lives That The Most Beautiful And Satisfying Experiences Open To Humankind Are Not Derived From The Outside, But Are Bound Up With The Development Of The Individual's Own Feeling, Thinking And Acting. The Genuine Artists, Investigators And Thinkers Have Always Been Persons Of This Kind. However Inconspicuously The Life Of These Individuals Runs Its Course, None The Less The Fruits Of Their Endeavors Are The Most Valuable Contributions Which One Generation Can Make To Its Successors.

Even Though The Realms Of Religion And Science In Themselves Are Clearly Marked Off From Each Other, Nevertheless There Exist Between The Two Strong Reciprocal Relationships And Dependencies.

Science And Religion

Nothing Happens Until Something Moves.

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

Is There Not A Certain Satisfaction In The Fact That Natural Limits Are Set To The Life Of The Individual, So That At The Conclusion It May Appear As A Work Of Art?

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

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.

He Who Can No Longer Pause To Wonder And Stand Rapt In Awe, Is As Good As Dead; His Eyes Are Closed.

When Albert Einstein Was Asked What He Would Really Like To Know About The Universe He Replied,'is It Friendly?

We Shall Require A Substantially New Manner Of Thinking If Mankind Is To Survive.

Politics Is More Difficult Than Physics.

The More A Man Is Imbued With The Ordered Regularity Of All Events The Firmer Becomes His Conviction That There Is No Room Left By The Side Of This Ordered Regularity For Causes Of A Different Nature. For Him Neither The Rule Of Human Nor The Rule Of Divine Will Exist As An Independent Cause Of Natural Events.

I Very Rarely Think In Words At All. A Thought Comes, And I May Try To Express In Words Afterwards.

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

Isn't It Strange That I Who Have Written Only Unpopular Books Should Be Such A Popular Fellow?

I Cannot Seriously Believe In It [quantum Theory] Because The Theory Cannot Be Reconciled With The Idea That Physics Should Represent A Reality In Time And Space, Free From Spooky Actions At A Distance [spukhafte Fernwirkungen].

It Is True That The Grasping Of Truth Is Not Possible Without Empirical Basis. However, The Deeper We Penetrate And The More Extensive And Embracing Our Theories Become The Less Empirical Knowledge Is Needed To Determine Those Theories.

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

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

On The Other Hand, The Concept Owes Its Meaning And Its Justification Exclusively To The Totality Of The Sense Impressions Which We Associate With It.

One Can't Teach A Cat Not To Catch Birds

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

Everything That The Human Race Has Done And Thought Is Concerned With The Satisfaction Of Deeply Felt Needs And The Assuagement Of Pain. One Has To Keep This Constantly In Mind If One Wishes To Understand Spiritual Movements And Their Development. Feeling And Longing Are The Motive Force Behind All Human Endeavor And Human Creation, In However Exalted A Guise The Latter May Present Themselves To Us.

Albert Is A Very Poor Student. He Is Mentally Slow, Unsociable And Is Always Daydreaming. He Is Spoiling It For The Rest Of The Class. It Would Be In The Best Interests Of All If He Were Removed From School Immediately.

Be A Voice Not An Echo.

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.

I Am Strongly Drawn To A Frugal Life And Am Often Oppressively Aware That I Am Engrossing An Undue Amount Of The Labor Of My Fellow Men.

If There Is Any Religion That Could Respond To The Needs Of Modern Science, It Would Be Buddhism.

Of All The Communities Available To Us, There Is Not One I Would Want To Devote Myself To Except For The Society Of The True Seekers, Which Has Very Few Living Members At Any One Time.

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.

The First And Most Important Necessity Is The Creation Of A Modus Vivendi With The Arab People.

What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or Of Organic Life Altogether? To Answer This Question At All Implies A Religion.

Gravitation Is Not Responsible For People Falling In Love.

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.

Those Who Manage Their Way Into A Crisis Are Not Necessarily The Right People To Manage Their Way Out Of A Crisis

Don't Let The Measurable Drive Out The Relevant

God Does Not Play Dice.

Science Will Stagnate If It Is Made To Serve Practical Goals.

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.

You Can't Solve Your Problems By Using The Same Thinking That Got You Into Those Problems In The First Place.

An Expert Is A Person Who Has Few New Ideas; A Beginner Is A Person With Many.

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

It Would Be Possible To Describe Everything Scientifically, But It Would Make No Sense; It Would Be Without Meaning, As If You Described A Beethoven Symphony As A Variation Of Wave Pressure.

We Cannot Get To Where We Dream Of Being Tomorrow Unless We Change Our Thinking Today.

[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.

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.

Man's Will, Sustained By An Indominable Conviction, Is Much More Powerful Than Material Forces That Seem Insurmountable.

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.

A Thousand Things Can Prove Me Right And One Can Prove Me Wrong.

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

The Trite Objects Of Human Efforts-possessions, Superficial Success, Luxury-have Always Seemed Contemptible To Me.

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

If The Bee Disappeared Off The Face Of The Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live. This Is Regarded As Probably Not A Quote By Einstein.

I Want To Know What God Thinks. The Rest Are Details.

Don't Listen To Their Words, Fix Your Attention On Their Deeds.

Wisdom Is Not A Product Of Schooling But Of The Lifelong Attempt To Acquire It.

Raffiniert Ist Der Herr Gott, Aber Boshaft Ist Er Nicht. God Is Subtle, But He Is Not Malicious.

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.

Each Of Us Visits This Earth Involuntarily, And Without An Invitation. For Me, It Is Enough To Wonder At The Secrets.

The Devil Craps On The Big Pile

The Moon Does Not Simply Disappear When We Are Not Looking At It.

E=mc2. Energy Equals Mass Times The Speed Of Light Squared. The Original Statement Is: If A Body Gives Off The Energy L In The Form Of Radiation, Its Mass Diminishes By L/c2. Ist Die Tragheit Eines Korpers Von Seinem Energieghalt Abhangig? 1905

If People Would Only Talk About What They Understood, Earth Would Be A Very Quiet Place.

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

Live Your Life... As Though Everything Is A Miracle.

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.

Now To The Term 'relativity Theory.' I Admit That It Is Unfortunate, And Has Given Occasion To Philosophical Misunderstandings.

Ever Since Childhood I Have Scorned The Commonplace Limits So Often Set Upon Human Ambition. Possessions, Outward Success, Publicity, Luxury - To Me These Have Always Been Contemptible. I Believe That A Simple And Unassuming Manner Of Life Is Best For Everyone; Best Both For The Body And The Mind

Common Sense Consists Of Those Layers Of Prejudice Laid Down Before The Age Of 18.

The Environment Is Everything That Isn't Me.

Despite My Being An Old Gypsy There Is A Tendency To Respectability Inherent In Old Age.

Creativity Is Contagious. Pass It On.

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.

God Always Takes The Simplest Way.

Generations To Come Will Scarce Believe That Such A One As This Ever In Flesh And Blood Walked Upon This Earth. (said Of Mahatma Gandhi)

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.

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

I Should Much Rather See A Reasonable Agreement With Arabs Based Upon Living Together Than The Creation Of A Jewish State.

Education Is Only A Ladder To Gather Fruit From The Tree Of Knowledge, Not The Fruit Itself

Trending Author

Oswald Chambers

Category