Quotes by category:Real

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.

weakness real life

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

ignorance real men

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. by Albert Camus

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

passion century real

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

pain real world

People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.

pain real believe

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage,... by Albert Camus

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

aristocracy real profound

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

real example men

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

nature real blood

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

real men lying

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

eight real heart

You bang that piano real nice. by Albert Collins

You bang that piano real nice.

piano nice real

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Albert Einstein

real heart men

It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

Albert Einstein

scare nice real

I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional - seem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.

Albert Einstein

educational real philosophy

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

Albert Einstein

real knowledge thinking

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Albert Einstein

inspiration real believe

Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.

Albert Einstein

movement real earth

The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

Albert Einstein

real teaching teacher

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

creativity real science

The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

Albert Einstein

political real evil