No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].
Interpretation
Ideas are rooted in our sensory experiences rather than divine inspiration.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes that our understanding and conception of ideas are fundamentally linked to our experiences through the five senses. It suggests that creativity and thought are not entirely novel or inspired but stem from the sensory input we receive from the world around us.
In practice
In a discussion about creativity, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of sensory experiences.
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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.
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.
To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.
Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because,ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.
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