Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing our interdependence and purpose in relation to others.
In this quote, Albert Einstein suggests that through introspection and contemplation, we can better understand that our existence is not solely for our own benefit but is deeply intertwined with the lives of others. He highlights the significance of reflecting on our roles and responsibilities in the broader context of society, encouraging a deeper connection with humanity.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might reference this quote to illustrate the importance of helping others.
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.
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.
FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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