Albert Einstein Human Quotations

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into it's international affairs, which without the pressure of fear, it would not do.

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18

With the affairs of active human beings it is different. Here knowledge of truth alone does not suffice; on the contrary this knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which st

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It doe

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

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings

I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings