Nice Quotes #39: Albert Einstein

truth-revelation (73)in #ubernicequotes • 6 years ago

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Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

Albert Einstein

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truth-revelation (73) 6 years ago

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

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truth-revelation (73) 6 years ago

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

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truth-revelation (73) 6 years ago

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

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truth-revelation (73) 6 years ago

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

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truth-revelation (73) 6 years ago

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

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truth-revelation (73) 6 years ago

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

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truth-revelation (73) 6 years ago

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.