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| We sleep 1/3 of... | We sleep 1/3 of our lives away. Copy | ||
| We still do not... | We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Copy | ||
| We will hope that... | We will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing. Copy | ||
| We will not change... | We will not change the hearts of other men by mechanisms, but by changing our hearts and speaking bravely… When we are clear in heart and mind – only then – shall we find courage to surmount the fear which haunts the world. Copy | ||
| Weak people revenge. Strong... | Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. Copy | ||
| Weakness of attitude becomes... | Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Copy | ||
| What a sad era... | What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. Copy | ||
| What a strange thing... | What a strange thing must be a girl’s soul! Do you really believe that you could find permanent happiness through others, even if this be the one and only beloved man? I know this sort of animal personally, from my own experience as I am one of them myself. Not too much should be expected from them, this I know quite exactly. Today we are sullen, tomorrow high-spirited, after tomorrow cold, then again irritated and half-sick of life. And so it goes. Copy | ||
| What depressed me most... | What depressed me most is, of course, the misfortune of my poor parents who have not had a happy moment for so many years. What further hurts deeply is that as an adult man, I have to look on without being able to do anything. Copy | ||
| What I see in... | What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. Copy | ||
| What I see is... | What I see is a certain something, desolate and grey as infinity. I do not believe that the structure of the human brain is to be blamed for the fact that man cannot grasp infinity. Copy | ||
| What is right is... | What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right. Copy | ||
| What really interests me... | What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. Copy | ||
| When compared to six... | When compared to six years’ schooling at a German authoritarian gymnasium, it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority. Copy | ||
| When I am judging... | When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way. Copy | ||
| When I examine myself... | When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. Copy | ||
| When I have no... | When I have no special problem to occupy my mind, I love to reconstruct proofs of mathematical and physical theorems that have long been known to me. There is no goal in this, merely an opportunity to indulge in the pleasant occupation of thinking. Copy | ||
| When I was a... | When I was a little boy my father showed me a small compass, and the enormous impression that it made on me certainly played a role in my life. Copy | ||
| When I was young,... | When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. Copy | ||
| When the solution is... | When the solution is simple, God is answering. Copy | ||
| When you are courting... | 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. Copy | ||
| When you trip over... | When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. Copy | ||
| Where there’s a will... | Where there’s a will there’s a way. Copy | ||
| Whoever is careless with... | Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. Copy | ||
| Whoever undertakes to set... | Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Copy | ||
| Why does this magnificent... | Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. Copy | ||
| Why is it that... | Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me Copy | ||
| Why is it that... | Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me? Copy | ||
| Wisdom is not a... | Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Copy | ||
| With fame I become... | With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon. Copy | ||
| Without ‘ethical culture’ there... | Without ‘ethical culture’ there is no salvation for humanity. Copy | ||
| Without creative personalities able... | Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. Copy | ||
| Without deep reflection one... | Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. Copy | ||
| Without the sense of... | Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. Copy | ||
| Women always worry about... | Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember. Copy | ||
| Women marry men hoping... | Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. Copy | ||
| Yes, we have to... | Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever. Copy | ||
| You ask me if... | You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one. Copy | ||
| You can never solve... | You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Copy | ||
| You can’t blame gravity... | You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. Copy | ||
| You cannot simultaneously prevent... | You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Copy | ||
| You can't blame gravity... | You can't blame gravity for falling in love. Copy | ||
| You do not really... | You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. Copy | ||
| You have to learn... | You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Copy | ||
| You never fail until... | You never fail until you stop trying. Copy | ||
| You see, wire telegraph... | You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. Copy | ||
| Young people especially like... | Young people especially like to contemplate bold projects. Also, it is natural for a serious young man to envision his desired goals with the greatest possible precision. Copy | ||
| Your imagination is your... | Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions. Copy | ||
| Your question is the... | Your 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. Copy |
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