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QUOTES OF ALBERT EINSTEIN ON SPIRITUALITY
1. I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
2. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
3. My religion consists o a humble admiration o the illimitable su!erior s!irit who re"eals himsel in theslight details we are able to !ercei"e with our rail and eeble mind.
#. $he urther the s!iritual e"olution o mankind ad"ances% the more certain it seems to me that the !ath to
genuine religiosity does not lie through the ear o lie% and the ear o death% and blind aith% but through
stri"ing ater rational knowledge.
&. "ery one who is seriously in"ol"ed in the !ursuit o science becomes con"inced that a s!irit is
maniest in the laws o the (ni"erse)a s!irit "astly su!erior to that o man% and one in the ace o which
we with our modest !owers must eel humble.
*. $he scientists' religious eeling takes the orm o a ra!turous ama+ement at the harmony o natural law%which re"eals an intelligence o such su!eriority that% com!ared with it% all the systematic thinking and
acting o human beings is an utterly insigniicant relection.
,. $here is no logical way to the disco"ery o elemental laws. $here is only the way o intuition% which is
hel!ed by a eeling or the order lying behind the a!!earance.
-. $he intuiti"e mind is a sacred git and the rational mind is a aithul ser"ant. e ha"e created a society
that honors the ser"ant and has orgotten the git.
/. $he most beautiul thing we can e0!erience is the mysterious; It is the source o all true art and science.
1. e should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has% o course% !owerul muscles% but no
!ersonality.
11. hoe"er undertakes to set himsel u! as a udge o $ruth and nowledge is shi!wrecked by the
laughter o the Gods.
12. hen the solution is sim!le% God is answering.
13. God does not !lay dice with the uni"erse.
1#. God is subtle but he is not malicious.
1&. 4 human being is a !art o the whole% called by us (ni"erse% a !art limited in time and s!ace. 5e
e0!eriences himsel% his thoughts and eelings as something se!arated rom the rest)a kind o o!tical
delusion o his consciousness. $his delusion is a kind o !rison% restricting us to our !ersonal desires and
to aection or a ew !ersons nearest to us. 6ur task must be to ree rom this !rison by widening our
circle o com!assion to embrace all li"ing creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
1*. 7othing will beneit human health and increase the chances or sur"i"al o lie on arth as much as the
e"olution to a "egetarian diet.
1,. $he man who regards his own lie and that o his ellow creatures as meaningless is not merely
unortunate but almost dis8ualiied or lie.
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