A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the interconnectedness of human beings and the universe.
Albert Einstein's quote highlights the idea that each individual is not an isolated entity but rather a vital part of the larger cosmos we refer to as the universe. It suggests that our existence is intertwined with everything around us, implying a sense of unity and belonging, encouraging reflection on our place and responsibility within the grand scheme of life.
In practice
During a speech about environmental responsibility, one might use this quote to highlight our connection to the universe.
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.
To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone.
All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.
Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
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