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Quotes from Einstein and the Poet — Albert Einstein

1879–1955

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Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Einstein and the Poet (1983)

The world needs new moral impulses which, I'm afraid, won't come from the churches, heavily compromised as they have been throughout the centuries.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

The God Spinoza revered is my God, too: I meet Him everyday in the harmonious laws which govern the universe.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I do not accept a religion of fear; My God will not hold me responsible for the actions that necessity imposes.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

This is the beginning of cosmic religion within him; fellowship and human service become his moral code. And without such moral foundations, we are hopelessly doomed.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

If I hadn't an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn't have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here—to love and to serve.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

What a betrayal of man's dignity. He uses the highest gift, his mind, only ten percent, and his emotions and instincts ninety percent.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

Attributed Einstein and the Poet (1983)

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

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