“It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.”
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Albert Einstein
“Still there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.”
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Albert Einstein
“Schopenhauer’s saying, that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,” has been an inspiration to me since my”
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Albert Einstein
“A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.”
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Albert Einstein
“Sólo hay dos cosas infinitas: el universo y la estupidez del hombre.”
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Albert Einstein
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
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Albert Einstein
“The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.”
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Albert Einstein
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.”
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Albert Einstein
“We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.”
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Albert Einstein
“The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.”
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Albert Einstein
“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”
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Albert Einstein