A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that individuals with a deep understanding of themselves seek to transcend personal experiences to achieve objective insights.
In this quote, Albert Einstein reflects on the idea that a well-balanced and introspective person desires to move beyond their subjective personal experiences and emotions. He implies that true understanding and insight come from embracing a broader perspective, one that prioritizes objective thought and perception, thereby escaping the confines of personal prejudices and biases.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of reality.
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.
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future.
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.
Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.
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