Albert Einstein Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

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It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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I always jest to people, the Oval Office is the kind of place where people stand outside, they're getting ready to come in and tell me what for, and they walk in and get overwhelmed in the atmosphere, and they say, man, you're looking pretty.

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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

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But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.

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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

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It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

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All men in the abstract are just and good.

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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The superior man limits his achievements.

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Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.

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The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

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