Albert Einstein
"Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every
one of us appears here involuntary and uninvited for a
short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In
our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake
of others, for those whom we love and for many other
beings whose fate is connected with our own." ...
"The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can
have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying
principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in
art and science. He who never had this experience seems to
me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind
anything that can be experienced there is a something that
our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity
reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection,
this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me
it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt
humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty
structure of all that there is."
Einstein's speech 'My Credo' to the German League
of Human Rights, Berlin, autumn 1932
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