THE WORLD AS I SEE IT
Albert Einstein
How strange we mortals! Each of us is here for a short stay, for what purpose we do not know, but we sometimes think we can feel it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that exists for other people, above all for those whose smiles and welfare support fully our own happiness, and then to the many strangers whose fates are bound by ties of sympathy . Every day I remind myself myself hundreds of times that my inner and outer life is based on the work of other men, living and dead, and I must devote myself to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving ...
I never saw the comfort and happiness as ends in themselves-this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. Los objetivos banales de los esfuerzos humanos —posesiones, éxito exterior, lujo— me han parecido siempre deleznables.
“Mi apasionado sentido de la justicia social y de la responsabilidad social siempre ha contrastado extrañamente con mi ausencia de necesidad de contacto con otros seres y comunidades humanos. Soy verdaderamente un “viajero solitario” y nunca he pertenecido en lo más profundo de mi corazón a mi país, a mi casa, a mis amigos, o incluso a mi familia más próxima; frente a estos lazos, nunca he perdido el sentimiento de distancia y la necesidad de soledad...”
Mi ideal político es la democracia. Respetar cada hombre como un individuo and do not idolize anyone. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow, without fault or merit on my part. The cause may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas that I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I realize that each organization achieves its goals, a man must be who think, direct and generally bear the responsibility. But the direction should not be required, they must be able to choose their leaders. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of good character poor ... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, with personality alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
This topic brings me to the worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I hate ... This scourge of civilization should be abolished as quickly as possible. Heroism at command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism-how passionately I hate them!
"The most beautiful experience I can have is the mysterious. Is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know and do not ask why, no longer marvel, is as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we can not penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our minds in their most primitive forms: is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense I am a deeply religious man ... I am satisfied with the mystery of eternal life and knowledge, a sense of the marvelous structure of existence as well as the humble attempt to understand even a small portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. "
I never saw the comfort and happiness as ends in themselves-this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. Los objetivos banales de los esfuerzos humanos —posesiones, éxito exterior, lujo— me han parecido siempre deleznables.
“Mi apasionado sentido de la justicia social y de la responsabilidad social siempre ha contrastado extrañamente con mi ausencia de necesidad de contacto con otros seres y comunidades humanos. Soy verdaderamente un “viajero solitario” y nunca he pertenecido en lo más profundo de mi corazón a mi país, a mi casa, a mis amigos, o incluso a mi familia más próxima; frente a estos lazos, nunca he perdido el sentimiento de distancia y la necesidad de soledad...”
Mi ideal político es la democracia. Respetar cada hombre como un individuo and do not idolize anyone. It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow, without fault or merit on my part. The cause may well be the desire, unattainable for many, to understand the few ideas that I have with my feeble powers attained through ceaseless struggle. I realize that each organization achieves its goals, a man must be who think, direct and generally bear the responsibility. But the direction should not be required, they must be able to choose their leaders. In my opinion, an autocratic system of coercion soon degenerates; force attracts men of good character poor ... The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, with personality alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
This topic brings me to the worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I hate ... This scourge of civilization should be abolished as quickly as possible. Heroism at command, senseless violence and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism-how passionately I hate them!
"The most beautiful experience I can have is the mysterious. Is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know and do not ask why, no longer marvel, is as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear-that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we can not penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our minds in their most primitive forms: is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense I am a deeply religious man ... I am satisfied with the mystery of eternal life and knowledge, a sense of the marvelous structure of existence as well as the humble attempt to understand even a small portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. "
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