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- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Translation of letter to Hermann Huth, December 27, 1930
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years, 1936
- Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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