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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

By Albert Einstein
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

By Albert Einstein
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.

By Albert Einstein
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

By Albert Einstein
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.

By Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

By Albert Einstein
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

By Albert Einstein
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.

By Albert Einstein
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.

By Albert Einstein
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.

By Albert Einstein
...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.

By Albert Einstein
'Imagination is more important than knowledge.

By Albert Einstein
'My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

By Albert Einstein
'My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

By Albert Einstein
'Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

By Albert Einstein
'I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details

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If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

By Albert Einstein
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

By Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

By Albert Einstein
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.

By Albert Einstein
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

By Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

By Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

By Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

By Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

By Albert Einstein
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

By Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

By Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

By Albert Einstein