Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
Interpretation
Impudence, or boldness, can serve as a protective and guiding force in life.
In this quote, Albert Einstein suggests that having a sense of impudence, or unashamed boldness and audacity, can be beneficial in navigating the challenges of the world. He personifies impudence as his 'guardian angel', indicating that this trait has protected and guided him through life's obstacles, allowing him to embrace freedom and creativity without the constraints of societal expectations.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about embracing one's true self.
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.
God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Lifeβs current.
No one knows enough to be a pessimist
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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