A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that individuals with a deep understanding of themselves seek to transcend personal experiences to achieve objective insights.
In this quote, Albert Einstein reflects on the idea that a well-balanced and introspective person desires to move beyond their subjective personal experiences and emotions. He implies that true understanding and insight come from embracing a broader perspective, one that prioritizes objective thought and perception, thereby escaping the confines of personal prejudices and biases.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of reality.
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.
It is not only the living who are killed in war.
If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.
Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.
I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.
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