It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein
More from: Albert Einstein
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. -
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them? -
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. -
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion. -
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
More quotes by Albert Einstein
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
- It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.