Albert Einstein quote: "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer ...
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Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more...
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To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton&...
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
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The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for some...
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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward...
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man&...
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You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never f...
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the...
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I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
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Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
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Never lose a holy curiosity.
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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.
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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything i...
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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop question...
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This ...
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
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The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing ...
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It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increa...
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of ot...
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Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads ...
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am ...
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes...
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children...
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the universit...
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The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly ac...
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydrea...
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
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Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life ...
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Time is an illusion.
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
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Nothing happens until something moves.
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Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cann...
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Never memorize something that you can look up.
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He exp...
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Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more inte...
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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stan...
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It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short wh...
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters
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Someone told me you are the worst kisser in the world... want to show me it's not true?
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You laugh because I'm different........... I laugh cause I just farted!
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I slipped on a banana peel and I fell in love with the person who helped me up.
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Learning a foreign language is pointless, I’m not even allowed to talk to strangers.
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I know that Einstein's theory of relativity is correct because every weekend goes by twice as fast a...
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The difference between running and walking is a lot more apparent when you have to go to the bathroo...
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If at first you don't succeed, order some pizza.
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Age only matters if you are a cheese.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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If only common sense were more common.
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If I keep paying attention, I'm going to be in debt!
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and...
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I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
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In grammar class the teacher asks her student: When you sing you say 'I sing' what do you say when y...
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Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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I'm not suffering from insanity, I'm enjoying every minute of it.
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
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When I was in high school I had two favorite subjects, lunch and recess.
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The surest sign that there's intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, is that it has never contac...
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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The best advise I have for all my teachers during a test is to pass the test out as fast as possible...
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Love is like playing bridge, if you don't have a good partner, it's good to at least have a good han...
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Girls are like phones. We love to be held and talked to, but if you press the wrong button you'll b...
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d...
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If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping you...
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Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
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Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet s...
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It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human tempe...
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Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living cre...
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You never fail until you stop trying.
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The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the p...
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of th...
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We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of opt...
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than know...
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy h...
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Out of clutter, find simplicity.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
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Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and...
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Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of...
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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man'...
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The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first lo...
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasin...
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A human being is a part of the whole, called by us
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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factor...
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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but ...
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily...
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How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a ...
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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and dri...
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each...
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts ar...
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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in r...
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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influe...
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such fee...
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism o...
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The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is alway...
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in ...
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the re...
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instinct...
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I ca...
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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of con...
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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life chee...
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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The legs are the wheels of creativity.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues...
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively s...
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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the pri...
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than know...
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.
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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how lon...
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerfu...
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On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of...
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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z k...
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The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
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According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and kno...
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by ...
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly ...
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other...
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distanc...
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred t...
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For t...
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Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earn...
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the gover...
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws ...
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which g...
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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human s...
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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any ...
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible pictu...
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcil...
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the co...
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
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If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d...
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assu...
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Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at whe...
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The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th...
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian rel...
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it a...
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Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for sel...
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
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An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a...
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as ...
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concep...
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I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

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I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

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