“In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties.”
―
Albert Einstein
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me”
―
Albert Einstein
“The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Learn to be
happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.”
―
Albert Einstein
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
―
Albert Einstein
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
―
Albert Einstein
“How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life.
―
Albert Einstein
“I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.”
―
Albert Einstein
