"What a person thinks on his own..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.
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“If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.”
“Mere praise of peace is easy and ineffective. What is needed is acitve participation in the fight against war and everything which leads to it.”
“For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.”
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“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”
“Good designers copy; great designers steal.”
“I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.”