Albert Einstein

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"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."	Ambition, Art, Desires
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."	Ambition, Art, Beauty
"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."	Change, Death, Life
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."	Death, Education, Fear
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."	Art, Life
"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."	Age, Change, Life
"A storm broke loose in my mind."	Miscellaneous
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."	Birth, Men
"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."	Evil, Honesty, Justice
"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."	Art, Experience, Hope
"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."	Evil, Politics
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."	Anger
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."	Philosophy
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."	Wisdom
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."	Age, Courage, Genius
"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."	Ability, Communism, Fear
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."	Mistakes
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."	Law
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."	Art, Crime, Effort
"As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."	Ability, Excellence, Military
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Good	Government	Happiness
Help	History	Honesty
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Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Learning
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Sleeping	Sorrow	Strength
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