One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
Interpretation
Avoid engaging in dubious activities, regardless of their appealing names.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of maintaining moral integrity and being cautious when faced with choices that may seem attractive but have questionable ethics or implications. It urges individuals to discern the true nature of their actions and to avoid being swayed by the superficial allure of high-sounding labels that might conceal unethical or dubious undertakings.
In practice
In a business meeting, this quote could be used to caution against pursuing a lucrative deal that might compromise ethical standards.
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.
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills.
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things; and a most perplexing problem it is. Many men who are very clever - much cleverer than the discoverers - never originate anything.
You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand
It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on the highest throne in the world we are still sitting on our own ass.
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