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Goals
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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
-Albert Einstein
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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
-Albert Einstein
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God
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God is clever, but not dishonest.
-Albert Einstein
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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.
-Albert Einstein
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Government
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
-Albert Einstein
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
-Albert Einstein
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Gratitude
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Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
-Albert Einstein
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Heart
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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
-Albert Einstein
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Help
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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
-Albert Einstein
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Humanity
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
-Albert Einstein
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We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
-Albert Einstein
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Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
-Albert Einstein, "The Saturday Evening Post", August 26, 1929
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Ideas
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They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
-Albert Einstein
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On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.
-Albert Einstein
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Identity
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This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
-Albert Einstein
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein
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Imagination
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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
-Albert Einstein
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
-Albert Einstein
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Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
-Albert Einstein
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In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
-Albert Einstein
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
-Albert Einstein, What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck, "Saturday Evening Post", October 26, 1929
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Individuality
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
-Albert Einstein
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Insanity
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
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Instinct
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
-Albert Einstein
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Books by and about Albert Einstein