Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (superpersonal" entity, in ways that he declared to be inspired by Baruch Spinoza's and Arthur Schopenhauer's ideas. He also asserted that the Jewish scriptures, Jesus, Gautama Buddha and other religious figures were important guides for the ethical advancement of humanity.

Found 215 thoughts of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

Thus the partial differential equation entered theoretical physics as a handmaid, but has gradually become mistress.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer .

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

God is subtle, but he is not malicious.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.