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Albert Einstein Quotes on Spirituality1. I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that

phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts;the rest are details.

2. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

3. 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

mind.

4. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems

to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and

the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

5. Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convincedthat a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of

man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

6. The scientists religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the

harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,

compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an

utterly insignicant reection.

7. There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of

intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

8. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. Wehave created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

9. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all

true art and science.

10.We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful

muscles, but no personality.

11.Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is

shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

12.When the solution is simple, God is answering.

13.God does not play dice with the universe.14.God is subtle but he is not malicious.

15.A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time

and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something

separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This

delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to aection

for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by

widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole

nature in its beauty.

16.Nothing will benet human health and increase the chances for survival of life onEarth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

17.The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless

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is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualied for life.

18.Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

19.Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

20.The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child

entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many

dierent tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. Itdoes not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they

are written. But the child notes a denite plan in the arrangement of the books-a

mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

21.The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for

existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of

eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely

to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

22.What I see in Nature is a magnicent structure that we can comprehend only very

imperfectly, and that must ll a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is agenuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

23.The nest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the

germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no

longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know

that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest

wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to

our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true

religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among

profoundly religious men.24.The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature

plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

25.True religion is real living; living with all ones soul, with all ones goodness and

righteousness.

26.Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere

thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make

clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional

life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which

religion has to form in the social life of man.