Albert Einstein

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"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth."	Adversity, Art, Difficulty
"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)"	Art, Men
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."	Adversity, Difficulty
"God may be subtle, but He isn't mean."	Miscellaneous
"Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love."	Love, Responsibility
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."	Excellence, Violence
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form."	Age, Courage, Duty
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."	Excellence, Violence
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."	Death, Evil
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."	Love, Conformity
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."	Ability, Art, Happiness
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!"	Men, Patriotism, Violence
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot."	Evil, Hope, Knowledge
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."	Knowledge, Life, Wisdom
"Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate."	Destiny, Fate, Men
"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."	Quotations
"Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."	Miscellaneous
"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?"	Excellence, Help, Imagination
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."	Art, Freedom, Imagination
"I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research."	Science
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
America	Anger	Anti-God
Anti-Religion	Argument	Art
Assumptions	Attitude	Beauty
Beginnings	Birth	Books
Capitalism	Change	Character
Choice	Communism	Confidence
Conflict	Conformity	Courage
Creativity	Crime	Criticism
Curiosity	Dancing	Darkness
Death	Decision-Making	Desires
Destiny	Determination	Difficulty
Dreams	Duty	Economics
Education	Effort	Emotion
Equality	Evil	Excellence
Experience	Faith	Fate
Fear	Freedom	Genius
Glory	Goals	God
Good	Government	Happiness
Help	History	Honesty
Hope	Humor	Imagination
Insults	Intelligence	Intentions
Joy	Justice	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Mistakes	Monarchy	Money
Music	Nature	Opportunity
Patriotism	Peace	Persistence
Philosophy	Politics	Power
Quitting	Quotations	Reading
Religion	Responsibility	Sanity
School	Science	Sin
Sleeping	Sorrow	Strength
Stupidity	Success	Talent
Taxes	Teaching	Technology
Thinking	Time	Truth
Violence	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing	Worrying