Quotes from Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear and punishment and hope of reward after death.

The [quantum] theory reminds me a little of the system of delusions of an exceedingly intelligent paranoiac.

They say that everything that happens is for the better. I am not sure about "everything." But what is for sure, that it is strictly up to us to turn our "loss" into our "victory.

Las gentes me cortejan en la medida que no las moleste. Pero cuando pretendo servir a objetivos que no les convienen pasan immediatamente al insulto, mientras que los indiferentes se esconden detras de su cobardía

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility towards the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

Why is it that everyone likes me, yet no one understands me?

All true learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.

I feel compelled to say something else to you. There has been a certain ill-feeling between us the cause of which I do not want to analyze. I have struggled against the feeling of bitterness attached to it, with complete success. I think of you again with unmixed geniality and ask you to try to do the same with me. It is a shame when two real fellows who have extricated themselves somewhat from this shabby world do not afford each other mutual pleasure.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Apenas se puede negar que el objetivo supremo de toda teoría es hacer los elementos básicos tan simples y tan poco numerosos como sea posible, sin renunciar a la representación adecuada de un simple dato

When we survey our lives and endeavours we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings.

The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.

No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will

Never stop questioning

Something deeply hidden has to be behind things.

Few people are able to express opinions that dissent from the prejudices of their social group. The majority are even incapable of forming such opinions at all.

Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them.

This kind of search in the dark, with its tense desire, lasting for years, full of foreboding, with it's exhausting change form aspiration to frustration and it's final breakthrough to lucidity, all of this you only know properly if you experienced it.

Non ho alcun talento particolare, sono solo appassionatamente curioso.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious