Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.
#Albert Einstein#Pain#War#Responsibility#Community#Earth#Bitterness#Morality#Ethics#Misery#Kind#Oppression#Individual#Mankind#Sigh#Sense Of Responsibility#Conscience#Causes#Doe#Facts#Source
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
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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
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
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I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
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My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#Feelings#Kind#Men#Intellectual#Attitude#My Attitude#Hatred#Cruelty#Disgusting#Pacifism#Murder#Antipathy#Theory#Spiritual
One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
#Albert Einstein#Jesus#Home#People#Community#Feelings#Jesus Christ#Kind#Rough Times#Christ#Timeless#Strive#Valuable#Kingdom Of God#Always Believe#Groups#Humans#Kingdoms#Small Groups#Human Beings#Religious Intolerance
The fact that man produces a concept “I” besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.
#Albert Einstein#Philosophy#Emotional#Men#Understanding#Perception#Language#Kind#Illusion#Existence#Prove#Fallacy#Behinds#Doe#Facts#Produce#Reaching#Self#Concepts#Dues#Succumbing#Totality#Religious Intolerance
The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.
#Albert Einstein#Long#Giving#Tree#Feelings#Kind#Ethical#Individual#Conviction#Example#Fine#Grows#Way#Can Do#Fertilizer#Long Time#Ought#Dies
Thus I came…to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true….Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience…an attitude which has never left me.
#Albert Einstein#Atheist#Attitude#Book#Reading#Age#Kind#Conviction#Authority#Being True#Suspicion#Ends#Grew#Stories#Left
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
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