Quotes about Philosophy
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
— Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
— Albert Einstein
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
— Albert Einstein
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
— Albert Einstein
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher(when asked about completing his income tax form)
— Albert Einstein
The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.
— Albert Einstein
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
— Albert Einstein
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.
— Albert Einstein
WHAT is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.
— Albert Einstein
Kada sedite sat vremena kraj lepe devojke, to prodje kao minut. Sedite minut na vrelu pec i to ce trajati kao sat. To se zove relativitet.
— Albert Einstein
It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.
— Albert Einstein