The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
Interpretation
Einstein criticizes the pursuit of material possessions and superficial success, highlighting their lack of true value.
In this quote, Albert Einstein expresses his disdain for the common human tendency to prioritize material possessions and superficial achievements over more meaningful pursuits. He suggests that these trite goals lack substance and deep significance, indicating that true fulfillment lies beyond luxury and surface-level success.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of inner values over material gain.
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.
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Others may try to feed our ego, but it is up to us to constrain it.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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