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What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or, For That Matter, Of The Life Of Any Creature? To Know The Answer To This Question Means To Be Religious. You Ask: Does It Make Any Sense, Then, To Pose This Question? I Answer: The Man Who Regards His Fellow Creatures As Meaningless Is Not Merely Unhappy But Hardly Fit For Life.

-Albert Einstein

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What Is The Meaning Of Human Life, Or, For That Matter, Of The Life Of Any Creature? To Know The Answer To This Question Means To Be Religious. You Ask: Does It Make Any Sense, Then, To Pose This Question? I Answer: The Man Who Regards His Fellow Creatures As Meaningless Is Not Merely Unhappy But Hardly Fit For Life.

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Whether Or Not You Can Observe A Thing Depends Upon The Theory You Use. It Is The Theory Which Decides What Can Be Observed.

People Like You And I, Though Mortal Of Course Like Everyone Else, Do Not Grow Old No Matter How Long We Live.

In The Middle Of Difficulties Lie Opportunities.

The Facts, Although Interesting, Are Irrelevant.

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One Cannot Learn So Well As By Experiencing It Oneself.

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.

Intelligence Makes Clear To Us The Interrelationship Of Means And Ends. But Mere Thinking Cannot Give Us A Sense Of The Ultimate And Fundamental Ends. To Make Clear These Fundamental Ends And Valuations And To Set Them Fast In The Emotional Life Of The Individual, Seems To Me Precisely The Most Important Function Which Religion Has To Form In The Social Life Of Man.

I Am Not A Genius, I Am Just Curious. I Ask Many Questions. And When The Answer Is Simple, Then God Is Answering.

If There Is No Price To Be Paid, It Is Also Not Of Value.

It Is Easier To Denature Plutonium Than To Denature The Evil Spirit Of Man.

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

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.

Everything Is Energy And That’s All There Is To It.

In My Opinion There Is No Other Salvation For Civilization And Even For The Human Race Than The Creation Of A World Government With Security On The Basis Of Law. As Long As There Are Sovereign States With Their Separate Armaments And Armament Secrets, New World Wars Cannot Be Avoided.

World Government

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Imagination Is Everything. It Is The Preview Of Life's Coming Attractions.

Common Sense Invents And Constructs No Less Than Its Own Field Than Science Does In Its Domain. It Is, However, In The Nature Of Common Sense Not To Be Aware Of This Situation.

We Can't Solve Today's Problems With The Mentality That Created Them.

Racism Is America's Greatest Disease, Racism Is A Disease Of The White Man.

We Can Invent As Many Theories We Like, And Any One Of Them Can Be Made To Fit The Facts. But That Theory Is Always Preferred Which Makes The Fewest Number Of Assumptions.

The True Definition Of Madness Is Repeating The Same Action, Over And Over, Hoping For A Different Result.

If I Would Be A Young Man Again And Had To Decide How To Make My Living, I Would Not Try To Become A Scientist Or Scholar Or Teacher. I Would Rather Choose To Be A Plumber Or A Peddler In Hope To Find That Modest Degree Of Independence Still Available Under Present Circumstances.

Life Is Sacred, That Is To Say, It Is The Supreme Value, To Which All Other Values Are Subordinate.

It Is Always Delightful When A Great And Beautiful Idea Proves To Be Consonant With Reality.

Creativity Is Inspiration Having Fun

I Have Come To Know The Mutability Of All Human Relationships And Have Learned To Insulate Myself Against Both Heat And Cold So That A Temperature Balance Is Fairly Well Assured.

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

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

I Want To Know The Thoughts Of God. Everything Else Is Just Details.

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

One Strength Of The Communist System Of The East Is That It Has Some Of The Character Of A Religion And Inspires The Emotions Of A Religion.

You Believe In A God That Plays Dice; I Believe In Law & Order.

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A Finely Tempered Nature Longs To Escape From The Personal Life Into The World Of Objective Perception And Thought.

The Ability To Portray People In Still Life And In Motion Requires The Highest Measure Of Intuition And Talent.

Anti-semitism Is Nothing But The Antagonistic Attitude Produced In The Non-jew By The Jewish Group. This Is A Normal Social Reaction. The Jewish Group Has Thrived On Oppression And On The Antagonism It Has Forever Met In The World... The Root Cause Is Their Use Of Enemies They Create In Order To Keep Solidarity.

During The Last Century, And Part Of The One Before, It Was Widely Held That There Was An Unreconcilable Conflict Between Knowledge And Belief. The Opinion Prevailed Amoung Advanced Minds That It Was Time That Belief Should Be Replaced Increasingly By Knowledge; Belief That Did Not Itself Rest On Knowledge Was Superstition, And As Such Had To Be Opposed. According To This Conception, The Sole Function Of Education Was To Open The Way To Thinking And Knowing, And The School, As The Outstanding Organ For The People's Education, Must Serve That End Exclusively.

All My Life I Have Dealt With Objective Matters; Hence I Lack Both The Natural Aptitude And The Experience To Deal Properly With People And To Carry Out Official Functions.

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.

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