Einstein Quotes

#1 - I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details . #2 -It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer . #3 -The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. #4 -Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. #5 -Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift . #6 -We should take care not to make the intellect our god ; it has , of course , powerful muscles , but no personality . #7 -Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people . #8 -A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others . #9 -The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious ; it is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. #10 -Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . #11 -I have no special gift . I am only passionately curious . #12 -Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts . #13 -It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge . #14 -Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty . #15 -Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within . #16 -No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it . #17 -Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds . #18 -Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet . #19- I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as science can reveal it. #20- Man will never be free until he is able to direct his emotions to think clearly. Only then can he control his environment and preserve his energy for creative work. From Einstein and the Poet In every naturalist there must be a kind of religious feeling; for he cannot imagine that the connections into which he sees have been thought of by him for the first time. He rather has the feeling of a child, over whom a grown-up person rules. All that exists is based on a creative principle, and man's creative principle is his conscience. He who considers himself grown-up and mature forfeits the wondering wisdom of a child. It is only man's consciousness of what he does with his mind that elevates him above the animals, and enables him to become aware of himself and his relationship to the universe. Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Death signifies nothing. The distinction between past,present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of the truth.