28 quotes
Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do — but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly trustworthy physical and human environment.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Philosophy is like a mother who gave birth to and endowed all the other sciences. Therefore, one should not scorn her in her nakedness and poverty, but should hope, rather, that part of her Don Quixote ideal will live on in her children so that they do not sink into philistinism.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of "humility." This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)
Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.
Attributed Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979)