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.
When I sleep I turn into a wolf. Bran turned his face away and looked back out into the night. Do wolves dreams?
Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.
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