Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter VIII, The Second Form Of Contemplation, p. 140
“You must warn people not to make the intellect their God. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling. If one doesn't play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose.”
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 135
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