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So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man\'s illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.
I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets.
Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.
The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
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The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.
War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man\'s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up.
Nothing happens until something moves.
I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present.
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.