Albert Einstein Quote #1
...there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those who do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; 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. Indications of this cosmic religious sense can be found even on earlier levels of development—for example, in the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. The cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism, as, in particular, Schopenhauer's magnificent essays have shown us. The religious geniuses of all times have been distinguished by this cosmic religious sense, which recognizes neither dogmas nor God made in man's image. Consequently there cannot be a church whose chief doctrines are based on the cosmic religious experience. It comes about, therefore, that we find precisely among the heretics of all ages men who were inspired by this highest religious experience; often they appeared to their contemporaries as atheists, but sometimes also as saints.
Albert Einstein Quote #2
A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein Quote #3
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein Quote #4
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein Quote #5
A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
Albert Einstein Quote #6
A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new
Albert Einstein Quote #7
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
Albert Einstein Quote #8
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein Quote #9
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Albert Einstein Quote #10
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein Quote #11
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
[Moral Decay (first published 1937)]Albert Einstein Quote #12
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein Quote #13
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
Albert Einstein Quote #14
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein Quote #15
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein Quote #16
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein Quote #17
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein Quote #18
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein Quote #19
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
Albert Einstein Quote #20
Be a voice, not an echo.
Albert Einstein Quote #21
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein Quote #22
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Albert Einstein Quote #23
Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
Albert Einstein Quote #24
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein Quote #25
But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
Albert Einstein Quote #26
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Albert Einstein Quote #27
Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
Albert Einstein Quote #28
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein Quote #29
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.
Albert Einstein Quote #30
Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.
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