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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

Albert Einstein
Political, Oligarchy, Information
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

I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

Albert Einstein
Apologizing, Remedy, Stills
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.108, Princeton University Press

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Albert Einstein
Inspiring, Success, Responsibility
"The Ultimate Quotable Einstein".

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

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

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein
Education, Real, Creativity

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

Albert Einstein
Legends, Honorable, Primitive

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

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

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

Albert Einstein
Military, Ideas, Technique
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.159, Broadway Books

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

Albert Einstein
Book, Reading, Writing

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.

Albert Einstein
Effort, Goes On, Way
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, St. Martin's Press

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

Albert Einstein
Development, Longing, Knowledge Is Power
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.370, Princeton University Press

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

Albert Einstein
Dark, Years, Light
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.289, Broadway Books

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

Albert Einstein
Letting Go, Work, Goodness
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.334, Princeton University Press

Learn from yesterday, live for today.

Albert Einstein
Life, New Year, Hope

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

Albert Einstein
Philosophy, Mistake, Reality
Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.101, Courier Corporation

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

Albert Einstein
Angel, Intellectual, Study
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.3, Princeton University Press

Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

Albert Einstein
Angel, Long, World

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

Albert Einstein
Independent, Men, Race
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein's Essays in Science”, p.92, Courier Corporation

One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Tree, Enough
Albert Einstein, Max Born, Hedwig Born (1971). “The Born-Einstein letters: correspondence between Albert Einstein and Max and Hedwig Born from 1916-1955, with commentaries by Max Born”, Macmillan _

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein
Happiness, Truth, Vanity
"Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb".

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

Albert Einstein
Years, Leather Jackets, Hair

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Funny, Wise

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life
Albert Einstein, Harry Woolf (1980). “Some strangeness in the proportion: a centennial symposium to celebrate the achievements of Albert Einstein”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

Albert Einstein
Death, Done, Want
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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