Albert Einstein Quotes

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles (electron,etc.) and not be forced to state them a priori.

A person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

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…

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us “Universe”, a part limited in time and space.[Der Mensch ist ein Teil des Ganzen, das wir Universum nennen, ein in Raum und Zeit begrenzter Teil.]

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to think too much about the future.[Ein glücklicher Mensch ist zu zufrieden mit der Gegenwart, um sich viele Gedanken über die Zukunft zu machen.]