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The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein

I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve man's condition than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust.

The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

Then I would have felt sorry for the dear lord, because the theory is correct.

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

Keep my desires and goals in mind. Don't insist that they must or must not be fulfilled. Let me work unfrantically to achieve them. REBT

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them.

Hitler's the supreme example of the delinquent Peter Pan. Stalin's the supreme example of the delinquent Muscle Man.

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

Encendió un cigarrillo para desinfectar la memoria.

You're aberrated in one way, he said to Will. I'm aberrated in another. A schizoid (isn't that what you are?) and, from the other side of the world, a paranoid. Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Grey Life.