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.
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.
In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
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