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Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Believe, Mean

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Spiritual, Atheist

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein
Im Sorry, Atheist, Fear

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Atheism, Agnostic
Quoted in N.Y. Times, 25 Apr. 1929

The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Children, Religion

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein
Death, Religious, Atheist
"Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein
Inspirational, Atheist, Life And Love
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Atheist, Teaching
Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Soul, Religion
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.40, Princeton University Press

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Children, Book

Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Attitude, Book
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.338, Princeton University Press

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.11, Broadway Books

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist
Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Eternity Of Life, If There Is A God
Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.11, Broadway Books

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist
Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., September 28, 1949.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Atheist, Kind
"Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, 1999.

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Mind, Problem
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck". The Saturday Evening Post, p. 17, October 26, 1929.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Religion, Atheism
"Einstein 'God' letter to sell on eBay, with bidding starting at $3M", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2012.

The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Struggle, Feelings

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Albert Einstein
Atheist, Lying, June
Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr., July 2, 1945.

What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

Albert Einstein
Religious, Atheist, Humility
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.446, Princeton University Press

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

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein
God, Religious, Atheist
Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.328, Princeton University Press

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