No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].
Interpretation
Ideas are rooted in our sensory experiences rather than divine inspiration.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes that our understanding and conception of ideas are fundamentally linked to our experiences through the five senses. It suggests that creativity and thought are not entirely novel or inspired but stem from the sensory input we receive from the world around us.
In practice
In a discussion about creativity, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of sensory experiences.
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.
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator of mankind
I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?
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