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.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
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