Albert Einstein Quotes about Feelings

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Albert Einstein

Men, Community, Feelings

Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.17, Open Road Media

The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.

Albert Einstein

Dark, Feelings, Normal

Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.217, Princeton University Press

My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature".

Albert Einstein

Religious, Law, Feelings

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.341, Princeton University Press

It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

Albert Einstein

Order, Feelings, Desire

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

Albert Einstein

Selfish, Feelings, Religion

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

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

Albert Einstein

Men, Feelings, Meat

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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

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

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

Albert Einstein

Jesus, Feelings, Christ

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Albert Einstein

Joy, Feelings, Understanding

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

Albert Einstein

Religious, Art, Feelings

"The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It".

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Albert Einstein

Feelings, Unity, Magnificent

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

Albert Einstein

Humility, Thinking, Feelings

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.446, Princeton University Press

It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants.

Albert Einstein

Animal, Tree, Feelings

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

Albert Einstein

Stars, Thinking, Feelings

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

Albert Einstein

Play, Ideas, Feelings

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Albert Einstein

Men, Feelings, Insightful

Interview with Paul Hutchinson, in Christian Century 28 Aug. 1929

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

Albert Einstein

Emotional, Achievement, Feelings

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

Albert Einstein

Religious, Spring, Feelings

"Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology". Book by Max Jammer, p. 68, 1999.

I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.

Albert Einstein

Simple, Feelings, Trying

Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.9, Open Road Media

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

Albert Einstein

Memorable, Feelings, Secret

It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.

Albert Einstein

Religious, Thinking, Feelings

Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

Albert Einstein Quotes about Feelings

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