The
Naked Lady
"Philosophy
is like a mother who gave birth to and
endowed
all the other sciences. Therefore one
should
not scorn her in her nakedness and
poverty,
but should hope, rather, that part of her
Don
Quixote ideal will live on in her children
so
that they do not sink into philistinism."
-- Albert Einstein, Letters
TWO POST-MODERN LAWS
Quoting
Einstein out of context,
they
say that good and evil are relative;
that
there are no moral absolutes.
They
LIE!
Only
two laws are needed to change the entire universe:
NEVER
use initiatory FORCE, and never CHEAT.
The
people who run our world constantly break both.
[ A.Grant, ''Metamorphosis'', Anarky 2 (June97)
]
It's Getting Colder.
"I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems primarily from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives - a disastrous byproduct of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. Nostra culpa! I don't see any way to tackle this disastrous shortcoming. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.".
A Very Strange Thing
"Strange
is our situation here upon earth.
Each
of us comes for a short visit,
not
knowing why, yet sometimes
seeming
to divine a purpose"
(Albert Einstein, 'Living Philosophies', p.3).
The Source of all Good things
"Nothing
truly valuable arises from ambition
or
from a mere sense of duty;
it
stems rather from love and devotion
towards
men and towards objective things."
-- from
Albert Einstein's letters
On Using Those Little Grey Cells
"Great
spirits have always found violent opposition
from
mediocrities. The latter cannot understand
it when
a man does not thoughtlessly submit
to hereditary
predjudices, but honestly and
courageously
uses his intelligence."
-- Albert Einstein (in defense of Bertrand
Russell)
On the priority of freedom:
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
A Message for the Future
Dear
Posterity, if you have not become more just,
more peaceful,
and generally more rational than
we are (or were)
- why then, the Devil take you!<
Having, with
all respect, given utterance to this
pious wish, I am
(or was) your Albert Einstein.
On Not Doing It Right.
"You ask me what I think about war and the death penalty.
The latter question is simpler. I am not for punishment at all,
but only for measures that serve society and its protection.
In principle I would not be opposed to killing individuals who
are worthless or dangerous in that sense. I am against it
only because I do not trust people, i.e. the courts. What I
value in life is quality rather than quantity, just as in Nature
the overall principles represent a higher reality than does
the single object." -- from Albert Einstein's letters
Einstein on Infinity:
"Only two
things are infinite,
the universe
and human stupidity,
and I'm not
sure about the former."
-- Albert
Einstein
More Einsteinian Theology:
GOD
IS SLY,
BUT
HE
AIN'T MEAN!
the prophet einstein on government:
the only justifiable purpose
of
political institutions is to
insure the
unhindered development of the
individual
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