He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Interpretation
Appreciation and wonder are essential to life; without them, one is detached from the world.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of curiosity and awe in our lives. He suggests that the ability to pause, reflect, and marvel at the world around us is vital for a fulfilling existence; without this sense of wonder, one essentially ceases to truly live and engage with their surroundings.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of creativity, one could quote Einstein to inspire the audience.
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.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.
When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
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