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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Personality, Creative
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.251, Princeton University Press

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, God
Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.581, Pickle Partners Publishing

Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. This is a normal social reaction. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world... the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity.

Albert Einstein
Attitude, Order, Roots

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Albert Einstein
Ignorant, Happens

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

Albert Einstein
Patience, Children, War

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

Albert Einstein
Memorable, Scent, Mules
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.25, Princeton University Press

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

Albert Einstein
War
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, St. Martin's Press

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

Albert Einstein
Men, Ideas, Goal
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.13, Princeton University Press

If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.

Albert Einstein
Hogwash, Reptiles, Has Beens
"Einstein to Curie: Ignore the haters", www.foxnews.com. December 8, 2014.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

Albert Einstein
Innovation, Finals, Logical
"Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein". Book by Abraham Pais (p. 131), 1982.

Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Engineering, Use

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Funny, Life
Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

Albert Einstein
Agreement, Together, Creation

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Albert Einstein
Beauty, Wise, Knowledge
Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: His Life and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, God, Religious
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

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

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

Albert Einstein
Home, Men, White
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.37, Open Road Media

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.

Albert Einstein
Law, Punishment, Ideas
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.340, Princeton University Press

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press

Albert Einstein
War, Believe, School
Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

Albert Einstein
Magic, World, Wonder

Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.

Albert Einstein
Prayer, Believe, Law
Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's Letters to and from Children”, Pyr Books

We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories.

Albert Einstein
War, Factories, Source
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.268, Princeton University Press

I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew.

Albert Einstein
Believe, Men, Doctrine
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.205, Princeton University Press

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, God

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