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.
ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'
And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.
You cannot drop the ego. Once you start trying to drop the ego you will get in a very deep mess; you will become more and more worried and puzzled. And this is not the way to get rid of the ego. The only way to get rid of the ego is to look at it.
Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
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