"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe , a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
"The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundemental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who know it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle."
"The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to insure the unhindered development of the individual."
"My intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up".
""A human being is part of the whole called by us universe , a part limited in time and space.""The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."""Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
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