"We all try to escape pain and..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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“In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.”
“You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.”
“I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.”
More on Life
“Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.”
“Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...”
“Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.”
More on Pain
“And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.”
“Time, time will heal the wound.”
“It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together”