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A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Humankind
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
Uncategorised
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
Cooperation
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A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.
Albert Einstein
Science, Religion, Mystery
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein
Science and Scientists
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Mistakes
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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
Albert Einstein
Change
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.
Albert Einstein
Theory
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According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.
Albert Einstein
Education
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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Change
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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
Albert Einstein
Action
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein
Value, Personal development
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
Albert Einstein
Truth
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein
Action
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An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
Albert Einstein
Visualization
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An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
Albert Einstein
Politicians and Politics
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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
Albert Einstein
Destiny
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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
Truth
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
Mathematics
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At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
Albert Einstein
Influence
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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Albert Einstein
Action
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Common sense
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Confusion
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
Albert Einstein
Humankind
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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.
Albert Einstein
Theory
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
Albert Einstein
Individuality
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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
Cooperation
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Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
Albert Einstein
Education
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
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Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
Albert Einstein
Peace
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Simplicity
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein
Heart
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
Opinions
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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
Albert Einstein
Science and Scientists
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God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein
Simplicity
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God does not play dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein
God
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
Albert Einstein
God
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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein
God
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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love
Albert Einstein
Love
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
Opposition
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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.
Albert Einstein
Death and Dying
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein
Music
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How do I work? I grope.
Albert Einstein
Work
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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
Cooperation
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
Albert Einstein
Survival
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
Albert Einstein
World
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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein
Gambling
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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
War
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I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
Albert Einstein
Patience
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I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.
Albert Einstein
Endurance
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
Solitude
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I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
The future
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I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
Perseverance
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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 keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
Success
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
Albert Einstein
Instinct
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Albert Einstein
Race and Racism
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If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
Albert Einstein
Ask
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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 side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
Albert Einstein
Goal
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
Fact
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If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
Albert Einstein
Research
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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Truth
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
Imagination
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein
Imagination
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
Albert Einstein
Government
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Albert Einstein
Interpersonal relationship
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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
Albert Einstein
Imagination
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Difficulties
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Intelligence and Intellectuals
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein
Conformity
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
Miracle
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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
Albert Einstein
Goal
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It is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase mans blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
Uncategorised
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It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein
Soul
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It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Albert Einstein
Education
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein
Loneliness
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Teachers and Teaching
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It is theory that decides what can be observed.
Albert Einstein
Theory
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein
Education
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein
Mind
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
Perseverance
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
Albert Einstein
Rewards
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein
Self-esteem
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
Love
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
Albert Einstein
Models and Modeling
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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
Albert Einstein
Money
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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 earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein
Gratitude
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Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein
Simplicity
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein
Religion
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
Conscience
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Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
Curiosity
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Never memorize what you can look up in books
Albert Einstein
Memory
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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Albert Einstein
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein
Government
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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
Albert Einstein
Change
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
Albert Einstein
Vegetarianism
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