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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellowmen.
“a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,”
On Schopenhauer, he greatly effected Einstein
youth
Read Schopenhauer at a young age
been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
who reads Herr Gumbel’s books with an open mind will get the same impression from them as I have. Men like him are needed if we are ever to build up a healthy political society.
Herr Gumbels Books
Talmud,
whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings.
Universalism
Without language our mental capacities would be poor indeed,
Wittgenstein and the The transmutation of Ideas into Language
if left alone from birth, would remain primitive and beast-like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly conceive.
A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
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Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society
Painting and music have definitely degenerated and largely lost their popular appeal.
His genius was the torch which lighted the way from the teachings of Clerk Maxwell
On two Genuises
H. A. Lorentz’s
“Not mastery but service,”
Should I master one subject or look to deverse myself across many suubjects? Perhaps fiscal benefit from mastery but personal satisfaction from DIversity.
Arnold Berliner’s
Bible
Tower of Babel.
“I don’t know how I should ever have got a clear idea of the principles of modern physics in the time at my disposal without this book.”
Popper-Lynhaus
Surgeon, M. Katzenstein
Dr. Solf
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward,
On Cooperatives
The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds.
On Character
Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
(I must admit that I was somewhat less of a model student than you).
On his being a student
Schoolchildren of Japan
If you always keep that in mind you will find a meaning in life and work and acquire the right attitude towards other nations and ages.
On finding a meaning in life
Paradise Lost
With primitive man it is above all fear that evokes religious notions – fear of hunger, wild beasts, sickness, death. Since at this stage of existence understanding of causal connections is usually poorly developed, the human mind creates for itself more or less analogous beings on whose wills and actions these fearful happenings depend.
individuals of exceptional endowments and exceptionally high-minded communities, as a general rule, get in any real sense beyond this level. But there is a third state of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form, and which I will call cosmic religious feeling.
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He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling,
How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
Perhaps this is why music is seen as the purest art form. The notion of Wittgenstiens prison of langauge for ideas is removed and only pure sound remains. Words have meaning attached through society and personal education but the compositional and classical sound of something doesn't limit itself in this sense
Kepler
Newton
But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the past. There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of
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Sigmund Freud
We must try gradually to awaken in them a sense of solidarity which does not, as hitherto, stop at frontiers.
human personality was the highest human good.
chief duty of the State to protect the individual and give him the opportunity to develop into a creative personality.
Spiritual disarmament, people insist, must precede material disarmament.
War again Tomorrow, by Ludwig Bauer,
impossible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided.
your great heartedness you are quietly accomplishing a splendid work, impelled by solicitude for humanity and its fate.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings. And it is a comfort that there still exist individuals like yourself, whom one knows to be alive and undismayed.
The human race, in so far as it sets a value on culture,
