Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
Interpretation
This quote advocates for efficiency in the production of essential goods to ensure the well-being of all humanity.
Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of producing the necessary goods that sustain life and health with minimal labor. He suggests that by reducing the effort required to produce these essential resources, society can ensure that every individual has access to what they need for a healthy life. This idea reflects a philosophical view on the relationship between labor, production, and the welfare of humanity.
In practice
In a speech about sustainable development, one might use this quote to emphasize the need for efficient resource management.
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.
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
Theories, books and ideas created within ivory towers had real-world consequences.
Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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