Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Interpretation
Popularity can be paradoxical; one may be well-liked despite creating work that is not widely accepted or acclaimed.
In this quote, Albert Einstein reflects on the irony of his popularity despite the fact that his literary contributions have not achieved mass appeal. It suggests that personal charm, character, and the connections one makes can lead to popularity that is independent of one's professional or creative success.
In practice
During a book club discussion about the values of authorship and popularity.
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.
I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.
I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.
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