Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
Interpretation
Work provides meaning and purpose to life.
In this quote, Einstein suggests that through work, individuals find a sense of purpose and fulfillment. It implies that engaging in productive activities not only occupies our time but also enriches our existence, lending depth and significance to our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding purpose in your career.
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.
Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support.
It is a hard thing for a man to be righteous, if the unrighteous man is to have the greater right.
People always say 'Etta, you know what your problem is? You're neither fish nor fowl. There is no place to rack you.' When I would go in a record shop, you might find one or two records by me in different stacks.
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
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