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.
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.
If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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