Humans

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

#Albert Einstein#Leadership#Inspirational#Society#Opportunity#Individual#Valuable#Values#Development#Humans#Fda#Depends#Human Society#Human Development#Enemy#Humanity And Society#Individuals And Society#Today's Society#Development Of Society

Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by power and by force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual.

#Albert Einstein#Power#Opportunity#Enemy#Communism#Communist#Individual#Mankind#Valuable#Arise#Development#Fascists#Flags#Force#Humans#Depends#Human Society

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

#Albert Einstein#Science#Thinking#Trying#Mistaken#Easier#Human Life#Humans#Pleasant#Accounts#Ease

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

#Albert Einstein#Love#Enough#Inadequate#Able#Humans#Has Beens#Human Beings

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

#Albert Einstein#World#Tradition#Fulfillment#Betterment#Humans#Scientific Knowledge#Conditions#Dependent#Ideals

Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.

#Albert Einstein#Animal#Mind#Creation#Impression#Arbitrary#Humans#Identical#Concepts#Totality#Humankind#Perception

Don’t dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

#Albert Einstein#Giving#Good Person#Being A Good Person#Dream#Valuable#Values#Humans#Persons#Human Beings

Don’t think about why you question, simply don’t stop questioning. Don’t worry about what you can’t answer, and don’t try to explain what you can’t know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.

#Albert Einstein#Men#Reality#Thinking#Worry#Miracle#Curiosity#Trying#Mystery#Construction#Reason#Eternity#Holy#Questioning#Awe#Contemplating#Human Mind#Mind#Answers#Behinds#Each Day#Feels#Formulas#Humans#Littles#Structure#Tools#Use#Concepts#Marvelous#Knows#Eternity Of Life

Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind

#Albert Einstein#Believe#Ambition#Simple#Childhood#Mind#I Believe#Possession#Scorned#Life Is#Body#Humans#Limits#Luxury#Publicity#Commonplace#Unassuming

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Life#Determined#Destiny#Mysterious#Distance#Invisible#Cosmic#Dust#Ends#Force#Humans#Insects#Pipers#Stars#Tunes#Vegetables#Wells#Spiritual#Human Beings#Determinism

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

#Albert Einstein#Being Alone#Feelings#Longing#Creation#Motive#Behinds#Endeavor#Force#Humans#Creativity#Inspiration#Feeling Lost#Desire

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

Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.

#Albert Einstein#Spiritual#Goal#Wish#Kind#Human Nature#Strive#Fulfillment#Worthy#Values#Able#Humans#Limits#Materials#Raises#Harmonious#Human Beings#Spiritual Values#Ifs

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

#Albert Einstein#Dance#Life#Knowledge#God#Success#Mysterious#Distance#Invisible#Cosmic#Dust#Humans#Pipers#Tunes#Vegetables#Human Beings#Determinism#Mysterious Life

I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle and I have faith and hopes in change in human destiny, thanks to the physical effects and benefits of a healthier diet and its influence on the character of the people. It will bring about some benefit and improvement to human society.

#Albert Einstein#Believe#Character#Destiny#People#Stronger#Have Faith#Thanks#Vegetarian#Moral#Improvement#Influence#Reason#Lifestyle#Hope And Faith#Aesthetic#Veganism#Benefits#Followers#Humans#Principles#Diets#Effects#Human Society

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

#Albert Einstein#Believe#Culture#I Believe#Automobile#American Culture#I Believe In#Humans#Peril#Standardization#Human Beings

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

#Albert Einstein#God#Success#Life#Knowledge#Believe#Humanity#I Believe#Being Human#Automobile#I Believe In#Humans#Human Beings

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

#Albert Einstein#Believe#Smoking#Judgement#Calm#I Believe#Affair#Pipe#Humans#Objectives#Tobacco#Smoking A Pipe#Smokers#Smoking Cigarettes#Smoking Cigars#Tobacco Smoking#Pipe Smoking

I believe we are here to do good. It is the responsibility of every human being to aspire to do something worthwhile, to make the world a better place than the one we found.

#Albert Einstein#Believe#Responsibility#World#I Believe#Found#Humans#Worthwhile#Aspire#Better Place#Human Beings

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a ‘matter-of-fact’ habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. Without ‘ethical culture’ there is no salvation for humanity.

#Albert Einstein#Attitude#Educational#Lying#Believe#Thinking#Humanity#Intellectual#Progress#I Believe#Killing#Ethical#Habit#Consideration#Danger#Salvation#Relation#Mankind#Factual#Mutual#Human Relations#Values#Culture#Matter Of Fact#Ethical Values#Facts#Frost#Humans#Matter#Practicals#Stifling#Words Of Wisdom

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

#Albert Einstein#Intelligence#Inspirational#God#Love#Life#Science#Religion#Imagine#Reflection#Creation#Human Frailties#Frailty#Humans#Rewards#Objects#I Believe#I Believe In God#Atheism#Atheist#Atheistic#Agnostic#Non Believer#Agnosticism#Human Thought#Frail#Who God Is#Religion God#God Is Not Great

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

#Albert Einstein#Religion#God#Inspirational#Believe#I Believe#Imagine#Reflection#Purpose#Individual#Soul#Creation#Ridiculous#Rational#Egotism#Human Frailties#Religious#Theology#Atheism#Thought Provoking#Body#Frailty#Harbors#Humans#Rewards#Spiritual#Objects#Believe In God#I Believe In God#Atheist#Atheistic#Non Believer#Agnosticism#Agnostic#Human Thought#Religion God#God Is Not Great

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.

#Albert Einstein#Intelligence#God#Inspirational#Religion#Believe#Individual#Authority#Ethics#Immortality#Concern#Atheism#Religious#Theology#Interesting#Morality#Behinds#Humans#Superhuman#Believe In God#I Believe#Non Believer#I Believe In God#Atheist#Atheistic#There Is No God#Ethics And Morals#Morality And Ethics#Morality And Religion#Moral Ethics#There Being No God

I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

#Albert Einstein#Balance#Cold#Human Relations#Human Relationships#Heat#Humans#Temperature#Wells#Assured#Mutability#Knows#Heat And Cold

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

#Albert Einstein#Art#My Way#World#Kindness#Effort#Men#Mind#Possession#Empty#Kinship#Bases#Critical#Ease#Endeavor#Ends#Faces#Fields#Given#Humans#Luxury#Occupation#Unattainable#Way#Has Beens#Ideals#Objects#Objectives

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

#Albert Einstein#Peace#Science#Future#Inspirational#Funny#Wisdom#Physicist#Modern Warfare#Peace Not War#Modern War#Post Apocalyptic#Apocalyptic#Anti War#World War Two#Nuclear War#Peace War#Warfare#Patriotism And War#Military#Nuclear#Call Of Duty#War#Make Peace Not War#Thoughtful#Modern Warfare 2#Nuclear Arms#World War 2#Historical Military#Nuclear Proliferation#Causes Of War#Military Power#Antiwar#World War 1#Relativity#Physics#Imagination#Horror Of War#Endless War#World War Ii#Automatic Weapons#Stones#World War I#War Plans#Weapons#Military Weapons#Just War#Human Stupidity#Declaring War#Atomic Weapons#Knowing The Future#Violent Death#Nuclear Weapons#Sticks And Stones#Wwii#Sticks#Humanity#World#War Of The Worlds#No War#Knows#Wise Words#Humans#Past Present Future#Fighting

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

#Albert Einstein#Simple#Nervous#Ancient#Scientist#Conviction#Astrology#Certain#Humans#Instruments#Nervous System#Reactions#Shows#Superstitions#Type#Uncanny#Wells#Factors#Unjustified#Knows

I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?

#Albert Einstein#God#Religious#Imagination#Mind#Clock#Theology#Human Mind#My Imagination#Dimensions#Four#Humans#Makers#Patterns#Thousand#Thousand Years#Years

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

#Albert Einstein#People#Support#Harmony#Human Mind#Mind#Angry#There Is No God#Able#Cosmos#Humans#Pages#Princeton#University#Views#Princeton University

It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

#Albert Einstein#Feelings#World#Aim#Difficult#Individual#Significant#Prison#Existence#Desire#Nothingness#Universe#Feels#Humans#Looks#Order#Want#Conception#Corresponding#Marvelous#Sublimity#Whole

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere… Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

#Albert Einstein#Religion#Death#Goal#Men#Imagine#Poor#Morality#Moral#Religious#Ethical#Ethical Behavior#Behavior#After Death#Atheism#Atheist#Dying#Social#Bases#Humans#Ideas#Needs#Punishment#Rewards#Should#Spheres#Ties#Undermining#Unjust#Way#Positive Atheism#Concepts#Has Beens#Ifs#Seems#Reward And Punishment#Agnostic#There Is No God#Religion God#God Is Not Great#There Being No God#God And Science#Science God

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

#Albert Einstein#Believe#Goal#Simplicity#Understanding#Important#Moral#Belief#Admiration#I Believe#Imperfect#Spinoza#Problem#Imagine#Logical#Obligation#Moral Obligation#Values#Able#Feels#Humans#Ideas#Knowledge And Understanding#Order#Spheres#Treats#Values And Morals#Views#Concepts#Human Problems#Seems

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Science#Nature#Love#God#Life#Acting#Human Mind#Men#Mind#Insecurity#Overcoming#Credit#Everlasting#Humans#Insecurity And Fear

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

#Albert Einstein#Attitude#Change For The Better#Assuming#Tradition#Foolish#Relation#Human Relations#Self Consciousness#Consciousness#Critical#Despise#Growing#Humans#Self#Would Be#Ifs

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

Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal.

#Albert Einstein#Strength#Struggle#Animal#Men#Existence#Social#Facts#Struggle For Existence#Physicist#Humans#Human Nature#Human Behavior#Collective Effort

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as “laws of nature”.

#Albert Einstein#Religion#Religious#Feelings#Mind#Trying#Consciousness#Harmony#Human Mind#Laws Of Nature#Universe#Humans#Insufficiency#Law

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a ‘lone traveler’ and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude.

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Heart#Home#Country#Responsibility#Social Responsibility#Social Justice#Justice#Community#Passionate#Direct#Traveler#Distance#Lone#Solitude#Social#Contact#Faces#Humans#Lost#Needs#Ties#Spiritual#Immediate Family#Human Beings#My Friends#Whole

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

#Albert Einstein#Nature#Science#Hard Work#Independent#Justice#Feelings#Secret#Improvement#Longing#Strive#Motivated#Human Condition#Interest#Irresistible#Humans#Conditions#Understanding

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

#Albert Einstein#Health#Food#Inspirational Animal#Vegetarian Food#Human Health#Chances In Life#Increase#Animal Rights#Vegetarian Health#Vegan Food#Animal#Chance#Humans And Animals#Human Animal#Vegetarian#Natural Health#Human Evolution#Healthy Living#Spirituality#Vegetarianism#Eating Raw#Environmental Health#Animal Life#Eating Healthy#Plants And Animals#Vegetables#Spiritual Health#Healthy#Earth Life#Vegan#Animal World#Earth#Raw Food#Spiritual Evolution#Eating Animals#Plant Life#Benefits#Healthy Eating#Survival#Cooking And Eating#Funny Inspirational#Plant Based Diet#Animals And Society#Food Medicine#Inspirational Health#Sustainable Living#Motivational Diet#Vegan Diet#Vegan Health#Animal Food#Evolution#Humans#Diets#Vegetarian Diet#Eating#Healthy Lifestyle#Physicist#Inventor#Fruits And Vegetables#Nutrition