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“The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.”

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Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
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“The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy.”

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Book:Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God
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“Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.”

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Book:A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
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“A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation”

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Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
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“I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.”

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Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
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