It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Quote by Albert Einstein
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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
- I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
- 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.
- One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- God always takes the simplest way.
- 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.
- The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Best Quotes
- So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
- President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
- Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
- Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
- Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
- Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
- The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
- The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.
- The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
- The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.