Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.


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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly ...
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other...
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distanc...
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred t...
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For t...
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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 earn...
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the gover...
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws ...
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
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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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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which g...
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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 s...
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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any ...
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible pictu...
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcil...
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
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Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the co...
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will.
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If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research.
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will d...
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assu...
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Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
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The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at whe...
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The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created th...
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The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian rel...
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror or force, whether it a...
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Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
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Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for sel...
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
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An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a...
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as ...
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concep...
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