“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
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Albert Einstein
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
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Albert Einstein
“No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”
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Albert Einstein
“When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.”
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Albert Einstein
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
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Albert Einstein
“The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.”
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Albert Einstein
“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”
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Albert Einstein
“In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds.”
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Albert Einstein
“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”
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Albert Einstein
“In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)”
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Albert Einstein
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are they crazy?” –Albert Einstein”
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Albert Einstein
“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
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Albert Einstein
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
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Albert Einstein
