Einstein: My beliefs

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth ... The trite subjects of human efforts -- possessions, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible."

-- Albert Einstein

Forum & Century, vol. 84

in The Great Quotations, G. Seldes, p. 71

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"... Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career."

-- A.E.

Monthly Review, May 1949

in Seldes, p. 114

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"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

-- A. E.

NY Times obituary, April 19, 1955

in Seldes, p. 816

#quotes #inspirational