Quotes from Albert Einstein

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why: No man of another can say, 'He is I.' Behind all agreement lies something amiss All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss.

Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don't follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

We cannot despair about mankind knowing that Mozart was a man.

If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.