"One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."

Einstein, Albert on Acceptance
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age."

Einstein, Albert on Age and Aging
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"And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way."

Einstein, Albert on Destiny
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on Difficulties
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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

Einstein, Albert on Education
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on Education
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"It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. 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."

Einstein, Albert on Education
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"According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."

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"The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts."

Einstein, Albert on Effort
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on Endurance
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on Experience
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"Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object."

Einstein, Albert on Experience
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on Facts
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"To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."

Einstein, Albert on Faith
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Einstein, Albert on The future
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"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on Gambling
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"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."

Einstein, Albert on America
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"It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations."

Einstein, Albert on Goals
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"If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind."

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"God does not play dice with the universe."

Einstein, Albert on God
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"God is clever, but not dishonest."

Einstein, Albert on God
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"God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world."

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"In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny."

Einstein, Albert on Government
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"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

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"Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

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

Einstein, Albert on Heart
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on Human Nature
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"A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his 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 this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Einstein, Albert on Humankind
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"Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind."

Einstein, Albert on Humankind
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"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

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"They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities."

Einstein, Albert on Ideas
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"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on Imagination
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on Imagination
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"The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices."

Einstein, Albert on Imagination
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"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

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"In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts."

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"Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."

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"At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on."

Einstein, Albert on Influence
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"If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery."

Einstein, Albert on Instinct
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