All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
Interpretation
Our inner drives and passions fuel our actions and existence.
Einstein suggests that the fundamental forces that motivate us—our desires, instincts, and passions—are what propel our actions and decisions. If these intrinsic forces were to disappear, so too would our drive to act, highlighting the importance of understanding what moves us as individuals and as a society.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding one's passion.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
It doesn't matter if that felony happened three weeks ago or thirty-five years ago - for the rest of your life, you've got to check that box, knowing full well the odds are sky-high your application is going straight to the trash.
To say revelation is to say, 'the Word became flesh...'
I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.
In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
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