“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.”
More from Einstein on Philosophy
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.”
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
“Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.”
Others on Philosophy
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”