The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the difference in outlook between Americans and Europeans regarding future goals and the nature of life.
Einstein's observation suggests that Americans are more oriented towards striving for future achievements, focusing on aspirations and goals, whereas Europeans may have a different relationship with the present moment. This reflects a cultural difference in how individuals perceive life, with Americans often emphasizing the journey of becoming something rather than simply existing in the current state.
In practice
This quote can be used to inspire students to set goals for their futures during a graduation speech.
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 passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow.
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