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Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Albert Einstein

Tag: life respect idolatry respecting-others

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call it the cosmic religious sense. This is hard to make clear to those who do not experience it, since it does not involve an anthropomorphic idea of God; the individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance. Indications of this cosmic religious sense can be found even on earlier levels of development—for example, in the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. The cosmic element is much stronger in Buddhism, as, in particular, Schopenhauer's magnificent essays have shown us. The religious geniuses of all times have been distinguished by this cosmic religious sense, which recognizes neither dogmas nor God made in man's image. Consequently there cannot be a church whose chief doctrines are based on the cosmic religious experience. It comes about, therefore, that we find precisely among the heretics of all ages men who were inspired by this highest religious experience; often they appeared to their contemporaries as atheists, but sometimes also as saints.

Albert Einstein

Tag: buddhism god religion atheism spirituality schopenhauer heresy 1930 new-york-times-magazine

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Albert Einstein

Tag: humor inspiration creativity epiphany

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Albert Einstein

Tag: humor

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

Albert Einstein

Tag: god religion bible

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Albert Einstein

Tag: wisdom intelligence learning