| An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. Albert Einstein Society |
| More from Albert Einstein |
| When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein |
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| True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. Albert Einstein |
| 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. Albert Einstein |
| It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein |
| Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein |
| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein |
| The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein |
| A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. Albert Einstein |
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| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. Albert Einstein |
| If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein |
| More in the Society category |
| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov Society |
| Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. Eric Bently Society |
| Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one’s niche in the world. Society, as we have seen, is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has. Randolph Silliman Bourne Society |
| "Our true ancestry is the emergent creativity of the universe. Our forebears were the great inventors who 'learned' how to coalesce hydrogen and helium into stars, to form planets, to sustain life first from mineral nutrients in the sea and later to capture delicious photons, to exploit oxygen for energy rather than be exterminated by it, to diversify via sexual reproduction, to form social groups for greater security and protection of offspring. We are the beneficiaries (and, admittedly, also the victims) of this narrative of emergence. Our 'companions' — abstract as this must sound to the uninitiated — are all of these progenitors. Indeed they are more than companions; they are family. From them we have inherited our corporeal shapes and movements, our body chemistry, and even some of our behavioral agendas." John Brewer Society |
| Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own. Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society |
| "Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also." Charles Horton Cooley Society |
| "The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality." John Dewey Society |
| As long as we have an unjust society, like we do now, we will never have a loving society. If you don’t treat people justly, how can you expect them to love you? Jane Elliot Society |
| "Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness." Erich Fromm Society |
| The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents.... It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community.... It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods. Lyndon B. Johnson Society |
