Albert Einstein

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"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."	Conformity, Freedom, Liberty
"Something deeply hidden had to be behind things."	Miscellaneous
"Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?"	Ability, Anger, Character
"Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate."	Destiny, Fate, Men
"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
"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation."	Art, Excellence, Men
"Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong."	Ability, Beauty, Duty
"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to."	Age
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."	Miscellaneous
"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
"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
"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."	Art, Character, Creativity
"Those people have seen _something_. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know. (on flying saucers)"	Knowledge, Lies, Wisdom
"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."	Ability, Age, Creativity
"Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice."	Age, Sin
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form."	Age, Courage, Duty
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."	Curiosity, Help, Life
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."	Monarchy
"Before God we are equally wise--and equally foolish."	Equality, Knowledge, Wisdom
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."	Art
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America	Anger	Anti-God
Anti-Religion	Argument	Art
Assumptions	Attitude	Beauty
Beginnings	Birth	Books
Capitalism	Change	Character
Choice	Communism	Confidence
Conflict	Conformity	Courage
Creativity	Crime	Criticism
Curiosity	Dancing	Darkness
Death	Decision-Making	Desires
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Dreams	Duty	Economics
Education	Effort	Emotion
Equality	Evil	Excellence
Experience	Faith	Fate
Fear	Freedom	Genius
Glory	Goals	God
Good	Government	Happiness
Help	History	Honesty
Hope	Humor	Imagination
Insults	Intelligence	Intentions
Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Music	Nature	Opportunity
Patriotism	Peace	Persistence
Philosophy	Politics	Power
Quitting	Quotations	Reading
Religion	Responsibility	Sanity
School	Science	Sin
Sleeping	Sorrow	Strength
Stupidity	Success	Talent
Taxes	Teaching	Technology
Thinking	Time	Truth
Violence	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Worrying