Einstein resists rationalism and the idolatry of the intellect when he says, “Warn people not to make their intellect their god. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling.” What are Einstein’s prime values? “If one doesn’t play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose.”19 So our true purpose is to participate in the creative whole. As Einstein confesses, “I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.”
