“Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.”
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Albert Einstein
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. ”
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Albert Einstein
“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
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Albert Einstein
“From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.”
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Albert Einstein
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
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Albert Einstein
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”
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Albert Einstein
“A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.”
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Albert Einstein
“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.”
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Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
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Albert Einstein
“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.”
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Albert Einstein
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. ”
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Albert Einstein
“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”
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Albert Einstein
“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”
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Albert Einstein
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
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Albert Einstein
