Albert Einstein - A Substantially New Manner of Thinking

"I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe." --Albert Einstein (1877-1955)

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." --Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: A Symposium," 1941, ch. 13.

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which is based on experience, which refuses dogma." --Albert Einstein

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness." --Albert Einstein

"Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within." --Albert Einstein

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our way of thinking . . . the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." --Albert Einstein, 1945

"Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into it's international affairs, which without the pressure of fear, it would not do.
"Nor do I take into account a danger of starting a chain reaction of a scope great enough to destroy part or all of the planet. . . . But it is not necessary to imagine the earth being destroyed like a nova by a stellar explosion to understand vividly the growing scope of atomic war and to recognize that unless another war is prevented it is likely to bring destruction on a scale never before held possible, and even now hardly conceived, and that little civilization would survive it." --Albert Einstein, 1947

"Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding." --Albert Einstein, 1947

"The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power, can protect us." --Albert Einstein, 1953

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." --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." --Albert Einstein

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." --Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence." --Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." --Albert Einstein

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this . . . killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." --Albert Einstein

"How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than to take part in such an abominable business." --Albert Einstein

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!" --Albert Einstein

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." --Albert Einstein

"The World War after the next will be fought with rocks." --Albert Einstein

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." --Albert Einstein

"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them." --Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself." --Albert Einstein

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." --Albert Einstein

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given." --Albert Einstein

"The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to insure the unhindered development of the individual." --Albert Einstein

"One should guard against inculcating a young man (or woman) with the idea that success is the aim of life, for a successful man normally receives from his peers an incomparably greater portion than the services he has been able to render them deserve. The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. The most important motive for study at school, at the university, and in life is the pleasure of working and thereby obtaining results which will serve the community. The most important task for our educators is to awaken and encourage these psychological forces in a young man (or woman). Such a basis alone can lead to the joy of possessing one of the most precious assets in the world - knowledge or artistic skill." --Albert Einstein

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person." --Albert Einstein

"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." --Albert Einstein

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