Albert Einstein Quotes

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.