Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
Interpretation
Human emotions and desires drive all our actions and creations.
In this quote, Albert Einstein emphasizes the fundamental role that feelings and longings play in shaping human actions and the creations that arise from them. He suggests that it is not just intellect or creativity alone that leads to innovation and progress, but rather the deep-seated emotions that motivate people to strive and create, underscoring the intricacies of the human experience.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a psychology class to illustrate the connection between emotions and human behavior.
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 show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.
I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.
Pursued by our origins... we all are.
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