What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
Interpretation
Einstein questions the autonomy of God in creation, suggesting a deeper inquiry into the nature of existence.
In this quote, Albert Einstein reflects on the concept of divine choice in the act of creation, indicating that what truly captivates him is understanding the extent to which God may or may not have had agency in shaping the world. This illustrates a philosophical exploration of determinism versus free will, inviting deeper thought on the implications of creation and existence.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of existence during a philosophy class.
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.
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.
If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.
Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.
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