Albert Einstein Ends Quotations

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Nothing will end war unless the people refuse to go to war.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.

If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age