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Albert Einstein Quotes - Page 47

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Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

Albert Einstein
Forget, Achieve, Authority
Obituary for physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, p. 101, 1916.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Albert Einstein
Wise, Philosophy, Politics
Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1955

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.

Albert Einstein
Order, Desire, World
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.38, Broadway Books

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

Albert Einstein
Life, Art, Fundamentals

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

Albert Einstein
Pain, Fear, Taken
Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Albert Einstein
Peace, War, Views
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.250, Princeton University Press

Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Albert Einstein
War, Past, Men
"The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man" by Michael Amrine, New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty

Albert Einstein
Spiritual, Struggle, Catholic

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

Albert Einstein
Funny, Stupid, Science
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein
Men, People, Fruit

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

Albert Einstein
Religious, Goal, Perception
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

Albert Einstein
Sad, Believe, Men
letter to Dr. Otto Fullisburger, cited in: Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, p. 75, 2004.

Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.

Albert Einstein
Eye, Soul, Enchantment

Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, Respect

Not all things worth counting are countable and not all things that count are worth counting.

Albert Einstein
Counting, All Things

This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

Albert Einstein
Income, World, Philosopher

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Albert Einstein
Real, Believe, Inspiration
Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

Albert Einstein
Ideas, Obstinacy, Originals

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.

Albert Einstein
Science, Math, Mind
Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.24, Open Road Media

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.40, St. Martin's Press

The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities.

Albert Einstein
Men, Order, Intellectual
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.14, Open Road Media

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

Albert Einstein
Law, Civilization, Community

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Albert Einstein
Nature, Science, Men
Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Success, Thinking

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Albert Einstein
Wise, Country, Travel

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