“The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.”
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Albert Einstein
“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.”
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Albert Einstein
“I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.”
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Albert Einstein
“Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.”
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Albert Einstein
“When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.”
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Albert Einstein
“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.”
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Albert Einstein
“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”
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Albert Einstein
“Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.”
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Albert Einstein
“the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
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Albert Einstein
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
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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
“The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
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Albert Einstein
