Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein

Quotes

"A human being is a part of a 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 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 this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.



"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."

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

Favorite Quotes: B.F. Skinner

Favourite

Quotes

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. 
B.F. Skinner

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B.F. Skinner

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B.F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B.F. Skinner

❤Great Quotes❤

Dr. Seuss

«   The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. –Dr. Seuss

«   Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. –Dr. Seuss

«   Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. –Dr. Seuss

«   Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. –Dr. Seuss

«   You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

«   Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. –Dr. Seuss

«   Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. –Dr. Seuss

J.K. Rowling

«   After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.  ~J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.  -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Sirius Black

«   It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!  -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.  -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   Of course it is happening inside your head […] but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?  -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.  Those who […] have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.  -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   The best of us must sometimes eat our words. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

«   His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. -J.K. Rowling, spoken by Dumbledore

Heinrich Heine

«   Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen. 

Mark Twain

«   Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

«   Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

«   Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain

«   Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

«   I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

«   I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

«   In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

«   In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

«   In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

«   Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

«   Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

«   The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

«   Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

«   When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

«   Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

«   He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

«   The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

«   We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

«   The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

«   I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

«   The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

«   A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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Awesome Vegetarian Quotes

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other..." Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit.  If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."  Harvey Diamond

"The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk." Michael Klaper

"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?" George Bernard Shaw

"A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen:  "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times.  Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing.  They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive.  I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones.  They're all the same.  If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it.  But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything."  Slaughterhouse

"To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana." Buddha

"Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them, the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger." John Denver

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Thomas Edison

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." Leo Tolstoy

"I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me."  Alex Poulos

"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child, as it is to the caterpillar." Bradley Miller

Contributing Sites include: www.veganoutreach.org/advocacy/quotes.html, www.quotegarden.com/vegetarianism.html, choices.cs.uiuc.edu/~f-kon/vegetarian.html, http://www.vegetarianimage.com/Quotes.htm

Thank you  all for helping spread the importance of vegetarianism and non-violence. 

"Vegetarian" is not a synonym for "considers self morally superior"

    While searching online, in a fit of boredom, for vegetarian quotes, I stumbled across a surprising number of articles which referred to vegetarianism as a "false religion" and accused vegetarians of considering themselves "morally superior" to meat-eaters. Both of these statements seemed a little odd, and mildly humorous to me.

    The idea of vegetarianism as a “false religion” makes little sense, largely because it’s not a religion, but more importantly because the claim is as incoherent and unprovable as the claim that there is a “true religion”. I consider the assertion to be little more than name calling, and a demonstration of a preoccupation with emotionally derived convictions, and a disregard for intellect and reason. If these individuals actually consider this to be the only, or most compelling grounds upon which vegetarianism can be disputed, they give the diet more credit than I do- and I am a vegetarian. Unfortunately, this is not likely proof of the infallibility of the vegetarian’s position, but an all too common instance of someone with no knowledge on an issue broadcasting their abstract and baseless opinions on the Internet for their fellow uninformed and likeminded readers to absorb.

    The notion that vegetarians consider themselves “morally superior” has always amused me, as I have been accused of such an opinion myself. I’ve actually never met anyone who felt that way, although I’m sure there are, as in every group, some vegetarians out there giving the rest of us a bad name. To be clear, I have never, nor do I currently, considered myself morally superior to anyone by virtue of my diet. In fact, I think the terms upon which a comparison of the degree of morality of two individuals could be made would be very difficult to determine, and I hardly believe that what an individual chooses to swallow, digest, and poop out, is sufficient grounds for such a comparison.

    What I do find interesting, however, is that even though the notion that one’s diet would suffice as grounds for moral superiority is ridiculous, meat eaters- many of whom tend to display a blithe disregard for the impact of their diet, or else appear at least as convinced as vegetarians that it is a legitimate, or even superior, choice- continue to make the accusation. Such puzzling behavior leads me to hypothesize that, in many cases, this may simply be a projection of the meat eater’s own feelings of moral inferiority. In the same way one could plausibly feel “sinful” when walking past a nun with a cigarette in one’s hand, or unintelligent when one is unlearned and conversing with a renowned scholar, meat eaters may feel -in some way- inferior when contrasting their dietary choices and the impact thereof with those of a vegetarian. Now, I want to be very clear that the above examples are intended to be demonstrative of a contrast in choices, not in any form of superiority, they hold just the same when worded the other way (one might feel like an intellectual when conversing with the unlearned.) Plus, anyone who has spent any considerable amount of time with me knows that if I was aiming to demonstrate the moral superiority of vegetarianism, organized religion is not a comparison I would be inclined make. This is simply to say that it is not uncommon to feel slightly more conscious of our choices when presented with those an individual whose choices differ notably from our own.

    Lending to this hypothesis is my own experience as a meat-eater. Unlike most vegetarians I know, I did not become a vegetarian based on any rational, moral, emotional, or environmental grounds. I became a vegetarian about four years ago because someone bet me I couldn’t. I won. I had done no research on the subject, and was convinced that eating meat was reasonably natural, healthy, and humane. This means as meat-eater I was unjaded by all the inconvenient facts and statistics that vegetarians’ minds swarm with about the environmental impact, health and nutritional issues, and humaneness related to eating meat and the meat industry. I did all my research after I made it through our entire camping trip feasting on surprisingly delicious, fire- toasted, vegetarian chicken burgers. Yet, even with my unimpressive knowledge of the issues that concern vegetarians, I still had a strange emotional relationship with vegetarianism.

    I realized that becoming a vegetarian would require an individual to give up much of what they were accustomed to and enjoyed eating. This would mean putting their values, and the product of their rational activity, before their physical satisfaction. It would also require them to constantly defend and explain a personal choice to countless individuals who are, for some reason, motivated enough argue that they are wrong, yet often too lazy to do any actual research on the subject. Instead they just throw around cliché lines like how “we are supposed to eat meat”, how the “animal population needs us to hunt, lest it get out of control”, how we have a couple pointy teeth, how vegetarianism constitutes a “false religion”, and how vegetarians are nothing but a bunch of self-involved tree huggers who consider themselves “morally superior” to the individual sitting across from them at the table with a greasy chunk of dead animal rolling around in his mouth. Although I had done little research on the subject, I could at least deduce these things, and recognize that they were sacrifices that I was not willing to make. I couldn’t help being a little jealous of individuals with such willpower, when I could hardly commit to a week long diet, not to mention their ability to commit to something for largely selfless reasons, even though it required a considerable amount of personal sacrifice. For these reasons, and surely others that I no longer recall, I had an unsettling feeling about vegetarianism, vegetarians, and when I thought on the subject- myself.

    Now that I have made the sacrifices that I clearly admired in others, I can honestly say I feel better about myself. I know that my actions are minimizing my impact on the environment, are in tune with my principle of non-violence, aren’t contributing to needless suffering, and have drastically enhanced my health, nutrition, digestion, energy, and brought me to a healthier weight. I feel that my choice has contributed to the overall utility. However, and this is a big ‘however’, just because I feel better about myself, it does not follow that I feel worse about others, or that I consider myself suddenly superior to them. Feeling good about yourself and the impact of your choices is a positive, healthy feeling, and is not at all the same as feeling superior to other people. I obviously consider the vegetarian diet to be great for the body and the environment, and I would be overjoyed if anyone chose to adopt it, but if they did that would be their choice, just as it was my choice when I committed it. Choosing not to adopt a vegetarian diet makes a person just that: a person who chose not to adopt a vegetarian diet. Since morality is unlikely to be solely a function of a person’s diet, it is unlikely that this choice is the determining factor in moral superiority.

    To say that I consider myself “morally superior” because I have made a choice for myself, which I feel good about, regarding what I ingest, and what kind of impact I want to have on the environment is, in my opinion, unable to be justified as anything more than a stereotype, and a projection of the accuser’s own dissatisfaction with, perhaps, his lack of discretion in terms of what he is willing to kill in order to treat his taste buds, or maybe his unflattering perception of his impact on the environment, or his discomfort with his contribution to an industry which he likely knows is, at the very least, inhumane. Perhaps the individuals perpetuating such a sentiment should engage in a closer examination of their own values, and feelings about their worldly impact. Maybe they have more in common with vegetarians than they realize. On the other hand, maybe we vegetarians really are all just assholes. ☺

The Story

This song is how I feel... isn't it neat when you find a song like that? When you feel like it could have been written just for you? I don't know who it would be talking about... a faceless person. It just feels like me.

My "Big Five" Personality Results

 I'm not sure how I feel about these results. The questions were fair and I answered honestly, but certainly everyone hopes for a little pizazz as their personality test results are processed. They want to see something that exclaims: "You're the most interesting person alive!" not "You fall in the middle of most categories!" But, this test is undoubtedly less bias than I am.

30 000 More Troops and _____ More Innocent Lives.

This article addresses what I consider to be one of the most important issues the country should be dealing with right now, but isn't.

Why are "American attitudes towards attacks on civilians more lax" than the attitudes of people in other countries?

This is a form of American exceptionalism, but Americans have generally believed that they are exceptional in their commitment to justice and human rights, not in their disregard for them (Obama with Blood on His Hands, Nicolas J S Davies).

Jason Ditz; an Exemplary Journalist

The role of a journalist in a democratic society is to provide citizens with a factual and representative account of events, in a way that facilitates the enlightened understanding that is essential to informed self-governance. When it comes to such government dominated affairs as foreign policy, the role of the journalist becomes infinitely more complicated, as “trying to tell the truth about people whose job it is to hide the truth is almost as … difficult as trying to hide it in the first place” (Moyers). Born of this complexity is an ancillary role of critical analysis; journalists must solve the maze of self-serving, government manufactured realities to uncover truth and expose propaganda, thereby bringing understanding to an even higher level. Though difficult, some journalists, such as Jason Ditz of Antiwar.com, emerge triumphant. Ditz is a choice journalist whose work heightens citizen’s understanding by employing a holistic approach to reporting, explaining why the story matters, and by contradicting and questioning spurious government claims.

To begin, Ditz’s work is an asset to democracy because he employs a holistic approach that reduces fragmentation, and enhances comprehension of not just the story itself, but also its relationship to other stories and events. Ditz accomplishes this by using broader frames, which include aspects such as power distribution and political motivation, as well as by linking certain phrases in each story to other stories, which provide further context and clarification. The supporting stories come from a plethora of sources including mainstream, independent, religious, and Middle Eastern news organizations, as well as many related articles by Ditz himself. The use of a broad spectrum of sources intimately connects his stories and covered events with those of the rest of the world. For example, Ditz details the Obama Administration’s inconstant behavior regarding the sanctions they threaten to enforce against Iran unless the country agrees to “talks”, explaining that “Iran’s top negotiator, Said Jalili” did agree to “such talks and had a new proposal …”, but the U.S rejected the offer “as ‘meaningless’” and seeks to enforce the sanctions anyway (Ditz, Plenty of Threats). Ditz’s frame is broad enough to include motivation, explaining that the U.S. had just finalized a deal with Israel promising, “to back ‘crippling sanctions’ against Iran” if Israel held off on commencing new West Bank “construction projects” (Ditz, Obama Bows). He also links this story to others, which detail Jalili’s announcement, the deal with Israel, the sanctions, and the IAEA’s evaluation of Iran’s site. The practice of establishing connections, and utilizing broad frames heightens understanding by reducing confusing fragmentation, and providing additional sources of information and perspective.

Secondly, Ditz’s work is admirable because he takes the time to explain why the story matters. This is important because the meaning of a story can often elude the reader, lost amidst a labyrinth of facts, quotations, statistics, and political jargon. For the story to accomplish it’s purpose of telling the reader something about the world, the meaning may need to be brought manually to the surface; Ditz does not shy away from this task. An illustrative example is Ditz’s coverage of the momentous occasion on which “former [V.P] Dick Cheney finally admitted there was absolutely no evidence to suggest that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11” (Ditz, Cheney Admits). When the same story was also covered by mainstream sources, the majority limited themselves to Cheney’s confession, and quick refutation of many negative connotations one might conceivably find following from such a revelation. CNN, for example, simply follows Cheney as he points to a “former CIA director” as the true source of the misinformation, then proceeds to describe his unrelated, though perhaps telling, defense of the Guantanamo Bay “detention center” and Bush administration “interrogation techniques” (CNN, Cheney: No link). Ditz, on the other hand, does not choose to let his coverage of Cheney’s deception fit the standard plot formula of official demonization or political dishonesty- which would hardly shock readers into an epiphany. Instead, he finishes his story with the stirring fact that it was based (or at least justified) largely upon this erroneous piece of information that the U.S. “invaded Iraq … sparking a bloody war in which well over 100, 000 American soldiers remain mired to this day”(Ditz, Cheney admits no link). This simple statement of importance is seemingly obvious, yet it managed to escape the attention of a profusion of other news sources. Without the reminder of the consequence of Cheney’s deceit, a “bloody war” whose atrocities are largely hidden from us, this is simply another case of government dishonesty to be read and discarded as routine and unsurprising.

Lastly, Ditz deepens understanding by contradicting and questioning spurious government claims. Comedian Bill Maher quips that the U.S. “is like a college chick after two Long Island Iced Teas: we can be talked into anything…” (Maher). Although it is usually politicians who do the talking, it is important for journalists to be shrewd since they are the medium through which official statements reach the citizens. Ditz does not blindly accept official proclamations, or treat them as badges of credibility; instead he carefully weighs such statements against demonstrable evidence. For instance, Ditz points out Obama’s repeated use of the “demonstrably false claim that he had uncovered a ‘covert’ Iranian nuclear facility in Qom”, when in reality, “Iran had already declared the facility to the IAEA” (Ditz, Obama Endorses). He also contests Obama’s widely accepted accusation that Iran’s motives aren’t peaceful and that the country is “breaking rules” by providing information about IAEA guidelines, which Iran is well within, and noting that the IAEA has evaluated Iran’s uranium enrichment plans and found them to be conducive only to peaceful civilian purposes (Ditz, Obama Endorses). In John Pilger’s novel Freedom Next Time, he contrasts “what the wisest know” to what the majority knows as a result of the “stream of [government] disinformation…”( 19, 2). Ditz’s critical reporting resists fabrications, and breeds the type of wisdom Pilger so esteems.

Furthermore, Ditz asks questions that challenge the assumptions and accusations in official statements. Still upon the subject of Iran’s recently unveiled nuclear power site, Ditz asks whether it is really “a provocation as Western leaders have tried to spin it, or merely a hedge against attack?”(Ditz, Obama: Iran is On Notice). He goes on to suggest less incriminating explanations for the site’s suspicious circumstances, such as it’s discrete location which he says “would add to the difficulty of Israel, which has repeatedly threatened to … destroy its entire nuclear program with an air strike” (Ditz, Obama: Iran is On Notice). By identifying, rather than reporting, inconsistencies, Ditz demonstrates his conviction that the role of journalists “in any society is to be truthful and to ask difficult questions…” (Ditz).

In closing, Ditz’s efforts to present a comprehensive, meaningful, and critical account of political issues have resulted in an admirable body of work that surely contributes to the enlightened understanding of readers, thereby embodying the spirit of democracy. Although Ditz’s critical analysis of politics could easily be seen as pessimistic or off-putting, it is this same quality that moves me to regard him so highly. I deeply respect his decision to side with err on the side of criticalness, favoring reality over power. To borrow from Bill Maher, “I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?”

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Maher, Bill. “New Rule: Smart President ≠ Smart Country.” The Huffington Post. Ed. Roy Sekoff. HuffingtonPost.com, Inc., 7 Aug. 2009. Web. 21 Nov. 2009. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/‌bill-maher/‌new-rule-smart-president_b_253996.html>.

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