Quotes from Albert Einstein

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Life without playing music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music, I get most joy in life out of music.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you'll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

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