Quotes by Albert EinsteinIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. 1 2 |


