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.
It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.
Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.
A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.
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