Albert Einstein

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"One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."	Military, War
"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."	Honesty, Justice, Men
"If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me."	Age, Art, Knowledge
"I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food."	Miscellaneous
"It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)"	Miscellaneous
"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies."	Miscellaneous
"There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!"	Miscellaneous
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."	Ambition, Art, Beauty
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."	Adversity, Difficulty, Lies
"If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?"	Miscellaneous
"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."	Excellence, Intelligence
"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."	Knowledge, Time, Wisdom
"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."	Destiny, Evil, Excellence
"I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias."	Age, Courage, Evil
"[Bias against the Negro] is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers."	Miscellaneous
"The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."	Destiny, Fate
"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)"	Ambition, America, Happiness
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."	Birth, Men
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."	Men, Success
"The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."	America, Goals, Life
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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