I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.
Interpretation
This quote reflects a desire to maintain the mystery of one's thoughts and nature without external scrutiny.
In this quote, Albert Einstein expresses a preference for intellectual and personal privacy, suggesting that being analyzed could strip away the depth and complexity of one's existence. His yearning to remain 'in the darkness' implies that there is value in the unknown aspects of oneself, and that constant examination might detract from the authenticity of one's being.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of personal space in relationships.
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.
'Women's' war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.
I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.
What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a 'neural correlate of consciousness'?
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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