We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.
Interpretation
We need to identify harmful traditions and adjust our lives to preserve our dignity and future.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of critically assessing the traditions and norms that we accept in our lives. He encourages us to recognize which aspects of these traditions may be detrimental to our personal development and dignity, prompting us to make conscious decisions that positively shape our future.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about societal reform in a community meeting.
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 difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.
The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.
Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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