Albert Einstein Quotes About Purpose

• I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Inspiration, Purpose

• Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Journey, Men

• I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.330, Princeton University Press

• The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Development, Purpose

• I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiration, Gita, Purpose

• Live with purpose. Don't let people or things around you get you down.

  Albert Einstein

  People, Purpose, Live With Purpose

• Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Education, Teacher

• When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

  Albert Einstein

  Patience, Children, War

• Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose
  he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.
  But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life
  that one exists for other people.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Reflection

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

• Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Humanity, Intuition

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

• Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Knowing, Purpose

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

• Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

  Albert Einstein

  Party, People, Political

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.11, Open Road Media

• Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Purpose, Mere

• The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need.

  Albert Einstein

  Struggle, Doe, Needs

• As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.50, Broadway Books

• In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Ambition, Intellectual

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

  Albert Einstein

  Purpose, Sake, Daily Life

• We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Purpose, Weapons

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media

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