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| To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| There is only one terminal dignity -- love. |
Helen Hayes |
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| From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. |
Helen Hayes |
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| There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in. |
Helen Hayes |
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| We relish news of our heroes, Forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. |
Helen Hayes |
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| Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions. |
Helen Hayes |
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| When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge. |
Helen Hayes |
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| The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. |
Helen Hayes |
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| Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. |
Helen Hayes |
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| My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.' |
Helen Hayes |
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| Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. |
Helen Hayes |
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| When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. |
Albert Einstein |
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| He who joyfully marches 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 suffice. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
Albert Einstein |
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| We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones. |
Albert Einstein |
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| My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. |
Albert Einstein |
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| What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. |
Albert Einstein |
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| It is only to the individual that a soul is given. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi) |
Albert Einstein |
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| It is the theory that decides what we can observe. |
Albert Einstein |
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| To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them. |
Albert Einstein |
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| What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. |
Albert Einstein |
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| If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. |
Albert Einstein |
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| We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. |
Albert Einstein |
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| 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, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. |
Albert Einstein |
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| If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets. |
Albert Einstein |
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| A storm broke loose in my mind. |
Albert Einstein |
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| When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. |
Albert Einstein |
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| We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. (on atomic energy) |
Albert Einstein |
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| It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. |
Albert Einstein |
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| By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action. |
Albert Einstein |
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| No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love |
Albert Einstein |
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| 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. |
Albert Einstein |
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| One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me |
Albert Einstein |
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| There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself pay attention to that. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Emc (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc. |
Albert Einstein |
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| To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the ranks of the devoutly religious men. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Something deeply hidden had to be behind things. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race |
Albert Einstein |
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| Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate. |
Albert Einstein |
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| All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences. |
Albert Einstein |
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| There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to. |
Albert Einstein |
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| If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. |
Albert Einstein |
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| 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. |
Albert Einstein |
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| A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind. |
Albert Einstein |
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| True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers) |
Albert Einstein |
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| The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. |
Albert Einstein |
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| We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. |
Albert Einstein |
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| He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. |
Albert Einstein |
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| How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. |
Albert Einstein |
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| An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. |
Albert Einstein |
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| In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. |
Albert Einstein |
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| More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed. |
Albert Einstein |
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| What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. |
Albert Einstein |
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| I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. |
Albert Einstein |
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| Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. |
Albert Einstein |
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| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. |
Albert Einstein |
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