Albert Einstein

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.

The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

I admit that thoughts influence the body.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason.

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

The heart says yes, but the mind says no.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.