Einstein Quotes
The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
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.
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated.
If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.
As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.
Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.
Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.
The same thinking and actions that created our problems cannot be used to solve them.
Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll.... It does not mean that everything in life is relative.
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out.
Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance.
That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!
God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
