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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
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Dance.
United States389 Posts
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On November 26 2010 02:26 Dance. wrote: Did you just copy and paste this from another site? I read these yesterday on stumbleupon... yes, they are very common, I have a copy on my comp, but you can get them from hundreds of sources, the one I used was: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html ^^ i'll edit with this in there. Cheer | ||
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gillon
Sweden1578 Posts
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alffla
Hong Kong20321 Posts
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Thrill
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news
892 Posts
I find these overly simplistic. He may have been a great scientist but definitely not a great philosopher. | ||
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MightyAtom
Korea (South)1897 Posts
On November 26 2010 02:52 Thrill wrote: Might wanna pick out a top-5 and spoiler the rest.. Thx for the suggestion ^^ | ||
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green.at
Austria1459 Posts
On November 26 2010 02:58 News wrote: Somehow his quotes never appealed to me. What is this - "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." I find these overly simplistic. He may have been a great scientist but definitely not a great philosopher. but its true  | ||
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NeVeR
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+ Show Spoiler + A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. | ||
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
When the solution is simple, god is answering .. uh huhand very much agree with a few others; my favorite being: Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. but most of them seem awfully handwavy to me =\ i guess i just prefer useful things | ||
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Ack1027
United States7873 Posts
' I guess I just prefer useful things ' ? | ||
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Romance_us
Seychelles1806 Posts
On November 26 2010 05:02 JeeJee wrote: i wholeheartedly disagree with a few of those quotes like .. uh huh and very much agree with a few others; my favorite being: but most of them seem awfully handwavy to me =\ i guess i just prefer useful things Einstein was not referring to any religious God I believe. More of like the essence that drives the workings of the universe. Can anybody clarify? | ||
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NeVeR
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Sephy90
United States1785 Posts
On November 26 2010 05:48 NeVeR wrote: Even if he was, who cares? It's not the author's intent, but the reader's interpretation that matters. I guess this is true, but isn't it important that we see what Einstein saw in his quotes? | ||
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BottleAbuser
Korea (South)1888 Posts
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
On November 26 2010 05:20 Ack1027 wrote: Why would you come into someone's blog, not even some random but someone who regularly posts helpful advice and experiences and say something like ' I guess I just prefer useful things ' ? i'm saying nothing about the OP at all; in fact some of his other blogs have been quite enlightening and he's one of my favorite bloggers, up there with fuddx. i'm referring to (a large part of) einstein's quotes pasted here. not all of them, mind you | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
On November 26 2010 05:28 Romance_us wrote: Einstein was not referring to any religious God I believe. More of like the essence that drives the workings of the universe. Can anybody clarify? A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. - Albert Einstein | ||
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KurtistheTurtle
United States1966 Posts
How about 'suinya'? | ||
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Chef
10810 Posts
It begs the question: "Does everyone think this way? Am I so uncreative?" or "Have I been shaped by these quotations without knowing it, by the way they have affected society even before I was born?" Depressing thoughts for an egoist like me. "A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be." I said this when thinking about a girl. I wonder if Einstein was thinking about a girl too | ||
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