Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Interpretation
Always act according to your moral principles, regardless of external pressures.
This quote emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and the necessity of adhering to one's conscience, even in the face of societal or governmental demands. Albert Einstein suggests that true ethical behavior requires individuals to prioritize their moral beliefs over the laws or demands of the state, which may sometimes conflict with their sense of right and wrong.
In practice
In a speech about civil rights, one might quote Einstein to emphasize the importance of standing up for justice.
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 see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.
This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.
Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
Human beings are religious animals.
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