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.
The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
There is a spiritual hunger in the world today - and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
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