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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms.

Albert Einstein
Children, Men, Understanding
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.252, Princeton University Press

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

Albert Einstein
Duty, Search For Truth

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.

Albert Einstein
School, Thinking, Knowing
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

Even a fool is wise after an event.

Albert Einstein
Wise, Events, Fool

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.

Albert Einstein
Mean, Thinking, Men
Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

Albert Einstein
World Government, Race, Law
"World Politics: Trend and Transformation". Book by Charles Kegley (p. 537), 2008.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

Albert Einstein
Wonder, Rational, Reserves

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.

Albert Einstein
Pain, War, Responsibility
Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and opinions”, Wings

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

Albert Einstein
World, Contemplation, This World
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

Albert Einstein
Determined, Payment, Workers
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.11, Open Road Media

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein
Past, Thinking, Soon Enough

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.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life
"The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

when u knw ur limits u go byond them

Albert Einstein
Limits

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

Albert Einstein
Happiness, Future, Achievement

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Funny
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

Albert Einstein
Falling In Love, Intelligent, Plans

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Mean, Judging
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.45, St. Martin's Press

The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

Albert Einstein
Special, Fields, Theory
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.367, Running Press

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist
Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Atheist, Kind
"Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1999.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Albert Einstein
Swings, Politics, Anarchy
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.38, Princeton University Press

You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.

Albert Einstein
God, Attitude, Believe

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, God
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.19, Open Road Media

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

Albert Einstein
Education, Science, Climbing

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein
Winning, Men, Thinking

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