Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [31-48] of 48 Albert Einstein quotesAlbert Einstein QuotesAlbert Einstein Previous 30 quotes It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.~ Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.~ Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge.~ Albert Einstein Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.~ Albert Einstein Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!~ Albert Einstein The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.~ Albert Einstein It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.~ Albert Einstein Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.~ Albert Einstein The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.~ Albert Einstein For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them.~ Albert Einstein How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.~ Albert Einstein 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 Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.~ Albert Einstein How is it these devices succeed so well in rousing men to such wild enthusiasm, even to sacrifice their lives? Only one answer is possible. Because man has within him a lust for hatred and destruction. In normal times this passion exists in a latent state, it emerges only in unusual circumstances; but it is a comparatively easy task to call it into play and raise it to the power of a collective psychosis.~ Albert Einstein Is it possible to control man's mental evolution so as to make him proof against the psychoses of hate and destructiveness? Here I am thinking by no means only of the so-called uncultured masses. Experience proves that it is rather the so-called "Intelligentzia" that is most apt to yield to these disastrous collective suggestions, since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw, but encounters it in its easiest, synthetic form upon the printed page.~ Albert Einstein The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.~ Albert Einstein The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.~ Albert Einstein Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.~ Albert Einstein Previous 30 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print