Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him….In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.
#Albert Einstein#Hate#Confused#Ambition#Men#Envy#Political#Intellectual#Bitterness#Desperate#Circumstances#Situation#Ability#Acclaim#Bursting#Careers#Flotsam#Humans#Organized#Speech#Streets#Taverns#Way#Orientation
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.
#Albert Einstein#Men#Sorrow#Desire#Comfort#Recognition#Affection#Behavior#Pleasure#Share#Existence#Ability#Protect#Solitary#Social#Gains#Humans#Closest#Conditions#Fellows#Human Beings#Innate#Personal Desire#Social Being
Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.
#Albert Einstein#Thanks#Physics#Introducing#Ability#Uncomfortable#Ideas#Principles#Fortunate#Relativity#Overestimate