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“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“And yet nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish co-operation of many individuals.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“It runs as follows: The State is made for man, not man for the State.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“The individual can accomplish little here, nor can one wish to see the best among us devoted to destruction through the machinery behind which stand the three great powers of stupidity, fear, and greed. ” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition laws. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“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.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it...” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest incitement to scientific research.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism—how I hate them!” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in a nation's life.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“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.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labour in every country of the world.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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