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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein
Simple, Facts, Life Is
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.15, Princeton University Press

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Creativity, Ideas
Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, May 3, 1949.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Science, Joy
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things

Albert Einstein
Two, Soul, Body
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.152, Princeton University Press

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

Albert Einstein
Passion, Eye, Intelligent
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.56, Open Road Media

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Albert Einstein
Life, Wise, Nature
Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein's Essays in Science”, p.2, Courier Corporation

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein
Motivational, School, Years
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.346, Running Press

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

Albert Einstein
Art, Men, Mind
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.168, Open Road Media

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Men, Community
Source: jonrappoport.wordpress.com

God casts the die, not the dice.

Albert Einstein
Dice, Chance, Casts

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

Albert Einstein
Strength, Struggle, Animal
Joseph Eger, Albert Einstein (2005). “Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change”, Tarcher

...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

Albert Einstein
Character, Community, Time Capsules
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.18, Broadway Books

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Men, Acting

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Kind, Very True
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.322, Princeton University Press

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

Albert Einstein
Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Torn, Formulas
William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

Albert Einstein
Wells, Oneself

The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.

Albert Einstein
Tyranny, All Time, Assured

No problem is ever solved in the same consciousness thas was used to create it.

Albert Einstein
Problem, Consciousness, Used

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Education, Determination

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Views, Order
"Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1995.

In the middle of difficulties lie opportunities.

Albert Einstein
Lying, Insperational, Opportunity

It is the theory which decides what we can observe

Albert Einstein
Science, Theory

As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

Albert Einstein
Religious, Science, Thinking
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.50, Broadway Books

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

Albert Einstein
Funny, Business, Humor

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Albert Einstein
Teacher, Selfish, Ignorant
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.106, Open Road Media

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