Quotes from Albert Einstein

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organise peace on this planet

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Peace comes through understanding

Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

In art, and in the higher ranges of science, there is a feeling of harmony which underlies all endeavor. There is no true greatness in art or science without that sense of harmony.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.

He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Peace cannot be kept by force it can only be achieved by understanding.

The war is won, but the peace is not.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!