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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.


Albert Einstein

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ALBERT EINSTEIN Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the co...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at whe...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian rel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for sel...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
ALBERT EINSTEIN An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
ALBERT EINSTEIN I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concep...
ALBERT EINSTEIN