You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people … Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

Albert Einstein#Horse#People#Car#Feelings#Environment#Neglect#Certain#Elements#Humans#Machines#May#Way#Our Lives

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

All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.

#Albert Einstein#Thinking#Responsible#Circumstances#Certain#Levels#Results#Want#Conditions#Our Lives#Ifs

Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven’t been contented with mediocrity. They haven’t confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.

#Albert Einstein#Heart#Artist#People#Track#Creative#Mediocrity#Accomplished#Creative Work#Feels#Littles#Satisfied#Way#Workers#Worthwhile#Beaten#Confined#Havens

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

#Albert Einstein#Education#Wisdom#Freedom#Truth#Knowledge#Art#Honesty#Lying#Teaching#School#Men#Justice#People#Age#Liberty#Action#Judgment#Academic#Duty#Teach#Being True#Publish#Search For Truth#Hamper#Restriction#Way#Dissemination#Evident#Academic Freedom

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

#Albert Einstein#Education#Science#Mountain#Environment#Obstacles#Unexpected#Skyscraper#Adventurous#Rich#Climbing Mountain#Barns#Broads#Climbing#Connections#Creating#Destroying#Discovering#Form#Mastery#Starting#Stills#Theory#Tiny#Views#Way#Starting Point#Deep Thought

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people’s education, must serve that end exclusively.

#Albert Einstein#School#Thinking#Mind#Belief#Opinion#Conflict#Replaced#People#Century#Ends#Function#Knowing#Lasts#Organs#Outstanding#Should#Sole#Superstitions#Way#Conception

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

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

#Albert Einstein#Inspirational#People#Environment#Opinion#Prejudice#Equanimity#Capable#Atheist#Life And Love#Ballet#Social#Incapable#Social Environment#Mind Opening#Forming Opinions#Opening Your Mind