“I believe the main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 109
“My main task is to enlighten the spirits and put all the dogmas to death.”
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