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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein
Love, Life, God

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Albert Einstein
Food, Animal, Flesh
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein
Moon, Thinking, Physics

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

Albert Einstein
Reading, Writing, Looks
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.428, Princeton University Press

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.

Albert Einstein
Peace, Culture, Failing
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.245, Princeton University Press

For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Attitude, Science
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Albert Einstein
Philosophy, Philosophical, Swallowing

Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.

Albert Einstein
Military, Loss, Race

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

Albert Einstein
Mistake, Military, President
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

In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago.

Albert Einstein
Teaching, Government, Talking
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.35, Broadway Books

I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.

Albert Einstein
Beautiful, Religious, Believe
Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.

Albert Einstein
Individual, Ability, Inquisitive

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Albert Einstein
Persistence, Catholic, Intellectual

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

Albert Einstein
Military, War, Mean
Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.189, Pickle Partners Publishing

My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.

Albert Einstein
Life, Body, Process

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Albert Einstein
Library, Addresses, Persons

It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Albert Einstein
Truth, Men, Comfort
Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.186, Open Road Media

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.

Albert Einstein
Thinking, Done, World

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.

Albert Einstein
Art, Mind, Wish

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

Albert Einstein
Love, Inspirational, Life
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.118, Broadway Books

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Albert Einstein
Learning, Knowledge, Differences

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Reflection, Mind
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.

Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.

Albert Einstein
Kindness, Eye, People
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.76, Broadway Books

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.57, Princeton University Press

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

Albert Einstein
Children, Regret, Stupidity
Letter to Edgar Meyer, January 2, 1915.

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