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> I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. > Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts. > Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. > Everything should be made as simple as possible but not simpler. > Imagination is more important than knowledge. > A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. > Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. > I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. > Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. > Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. > Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. > Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. > The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. > Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. > We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. > If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; z is keeping your mouth shut. > Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not sure about the universe. > I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. > In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. > The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. > God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. > Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. > My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. > The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, the fear of death and blind faith but through striving after rational knowledge. > A human being is a part of a whole, called by us as '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 to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. |
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