Albert Einstein Quotes

From discord, find Harmony.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...

to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity.
From discord find harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

A problem can't be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

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

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.