The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
Interpretation
Concepts and systems are valid only if they accurately represent our experiences; otherwise, they are meaningless.
In this quote, Einstein asserts that the value of our conceptual frameworks lies in their ability to reflect and explain our lived experiences. If these frameworks fail to do so, they lose their legitimacy and purpose, suggesting that understanding and knowledge must be rooted in reality rather than abstract notions.
In practice
In a philosophy class discussing the nature of concepts and 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.
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.
Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
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