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Einstein on Politics delves into the personal and public views of the renowned physicist on various political matters, offering insights into his thoughts and positions on significant historical events and movements.
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“It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.”
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“The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible”
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“Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.”
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“For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him.”
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“It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.”
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“I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.”
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“The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.”
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“Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind”
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“The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.”
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“One must take what nature gives as one finds it.”
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“The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling.”
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“What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.”
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“Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.”
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“We are here for the sake of others”
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“Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?”
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“The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.”
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“The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”
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“What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!”
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“Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.”
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“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.”
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“Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.”
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“Strange is our situation here upon earth.”
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“Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.”
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“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
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“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
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“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
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“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
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