It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
Interpretation
Only those who are truly free can contribute to society through creativity and intellect.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the essential connection between freedom and creativity. It suggests that true innovation and meaningful contributions to modern life stem from individuals who experience liberation, as only in such states of freedom can the human mind fully explore and express its potentials through inventions and intellectual pursuits.
In practice
In a speech about technological advancements, one could quote Einstein to inspire innovation.
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.
Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.
I don't suppose that I know more about life than anyone of my age, but it seems to me that, in the capacity of an interlocutor, a book is more reliable than a friend or a beloved.
When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
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