01UndatedI cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
02UndatedMy 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.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
03UndatedThe word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
04UndatedI don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
05UndatedIn the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)Albert Einstein / quote ↗
06UndatedCommon to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
08UndatedI know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
09UndatedIt is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
11UndatedWisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
12UndatedIf one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreckAlbert Einstein / quote ↗
13UndatedStrange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
14UndatedMan is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
16UndatedFrom the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
17UndatedIn scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
18UndatedI believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
21UndatedThe principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
22UndatedScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
23UndatedIf there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
24UndatedYour question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.Albert Einstein / quote ↗
