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Quotes from Essay to Leo Baeck — Albert Einstein

1879–1955

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

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.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else—unless it is an enemy.

Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

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