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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Life, Reflection
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it.

Albert Einstein
Imagine, Prove It, Prove

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

Albert Einstein
Princeton University, Views, People

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

Albert Einstein
Learning, Knowledge, Firsts

Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein
Taken, Artist, Evil
Einstein's tribute to Pablo Casals on March 30, 1953. "Conversations with Casals". Book by Josep Maria Corredor, p. 11, archive.org. 1957.

Curiosity is its own reason.

Albert Einstein
Curiosity, Reason
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein
Education, Mistake, Teaching
Albert Einstein (2008). “The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works”, Penguin Group(CA)

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

Albert Einstein
Teacher, Real, Teaching
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.16, Open Road Media

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

Albert Einstein
Lying, Hero, Men
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.4, Broadway Books

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

Albert Einstein
Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.

Albert Einstein
Fate, Destiny, Men
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.10, Open Road Media

The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

Albert Einstein
Lying, Heart, Thinking

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

Albert Einstein
Play, World, Dice
William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

Albert Einstein
Generations, Individual, Products
"The Progress of Science" by J. McKeen Cattell, The Scientific Monthly, June, 1921.

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.

Albert Einstein
Art, Freedom, Science
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.10, Open Road Media

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Albert Einstein
Science, Doubt, Want

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.

Albert Einstein
Fate, Men, Knowing
"My Credo". Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in "Einstein: A Life in Science" by Michael White and John Gribbin, 1994.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

Albert Einstein
Source, Should, Consolation
"Bible signed by Albert Einstein in 1932, given to friend sells for $68,500 at auction in NYC", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2013.

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Character, Abhorrent
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Music, Spiritual
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

Am I, or the others crazy?

Albert Einstein
Crazy

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Albert Einstein
Science, Empty, Schemes
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.429, Princeton University Press

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

Albert Einstein
Games, Play, Mind
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.431, Princeton University Press

Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

Albert Einstein
Nature, Sublime, Secret
Letter to Oscar Veblen, 30 Apr. 1930

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

Albert Einstein
Principles, Raw Materials, Firsts
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.21, Broadway Books

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