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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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