The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
~ Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
God always takes the simplest way.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
The environment is everything that isn't me.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
