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.
The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.
I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
If you are on an honest journey to find yourself, you'll find God.
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