Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.
The stupid are invincible.
Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.
When you won’t be able to describe it simply just, you don’t are aware of it well sufficient.
I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.
If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art...
Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
Man’s will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.
Warfare cannot be humanized.
Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: “How wonderful! It sounds so German!” Einstein responded: “Madam, people are all the same.”
You cannot solve current problems with current thinking. Current problems are the result of current thinking.
A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.
Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.
The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.
Each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own.
Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.
Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.
For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact.