Top 25 Quotes by Albert Einstein of 1952 - Page 36

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Albert Einstein

Political, Development, Purpose

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Powerful, Imagination

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

War, People, Ends

"Einstein on Peace".

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.

Albert Einstein

Attitude, Self, Would Be

Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.475, Princeton University Press

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

Albert Einstein

Past, Interest, Greater

Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.

Albert Einstein

Thinking, Race, Order

Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.561, Pickle Partners Publishing

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

Albert Einstein

Time, Science, Thinking

I never said half the crap people said I did.

Albert Einstein

People, Half, Said

There are six-million shots in the game of pool.

Albert Einstein

Games, Six, Pool

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.

Albert Einstein

Men, Sorrow, Desire

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.32, Open Road Media

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

Albert Einstein

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

"Einstein 'God' letter to sell on eBay, with bidding starting at $3M", www.foxnews.com. October 4, 2012.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Albert Einstein

Generations, Younger Generation, Aggravating

In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.

Albert Einstein

World, Sailboat, Oblivious

Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

Albert Einstein

Two, Psychology, Soul

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Funny, Truth

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

Albert Einstein

Math, Noses, Wells

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

Albert Einstein

Science, Intelligent, Interesting

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.28, Open Road Media

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Albert Einstein

Happy, Art, Feelings

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

Albert Einstein

Fashion, Civilization, Boots

In a letter to his cousin and second wife Elsa, during a visit to the University of Oxford, in collection donated to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel by Einstein's stepdaughter Margot, as quoted in "Einstein in no-sock shock", New Scientist, July 15, 2006.

The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

Albert Einstein

Atheist, Struggle, Feelings

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

"Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2008.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Albert Einstein

Educational, Curiosity, Littles

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Albert Einstein

Mean, Science, Together

Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Fall, Reading, Creativity

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press