He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Interpretation
Appreciation and wonder are essential to life; without them, one is detached from the world.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of curiosity and awe in our lives. He suggests that the ability to pause, reflect, and marvel at the world around us is vital for a fulfilling existence; without this sense of wonder, one essentially ceases to truly live and engage with their surroundings.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of creativity, one could quote Einstein to inspire the audience.
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.
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.
You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance of Americans to criticize, and their increasing tendency to condemn those who, in ever dwindling numbers, will still voice dissent") is disturbing, deplorable, and truly dangerous.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
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