I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a desire to maintain the mystery of one's thoughts and nature without external scrutiny.
In this quote, Albert Einstein expresses a preference for intellectual and personal privacy, suggesting that being analyzed could strip away the depth and complexity of one's existence. His yearning to remain 'in the darkness' implies that there is value in the unknown aspects of oneself, and that constant examination might detract from the authenticity of one's being.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of personal space in relationships.
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.
The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.
We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.
The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs from the feast. You must take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. And you must treat them like guests at your family table.
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
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