
“The Intellect constitutes the raison d’être of the human condition.”
[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, 27, 978-1-936597-41-3]
Human being, Intellect
[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 34, 978-1-93659700-0]
Spiritual life, Truth
“The Intellect constitutes the raison d’être of the human condition.”
[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, 27, 978-1-936597-41-3]
Human being, Intellect
“Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.”
Source: Slow Man (2004)
Source: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908), p. 130
From a letter to Eduard Büsching (25 October 1929) after Büsching sent Einstein a copy of his book Es gibt keinen Gott [There Is no God]. Einstein responded that the book only dealt with the concept of a personal God, p. 51
Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and Religion (1999)
Context: We followers of Spinoza see our God in the wonderful order and lawfulness of all that exists and in its soul ("Beseeltheit") as it reveals itself in man and animal. It is a different question whether belief in a personal God should be contested. Freud endorsed this view in his latest publication. I myself would never engage in such a task. For such a belief seems to me preferable to the lack of any transcendental outlook of life, and I wonder whether one can ever successfully render to the majority of mankind a more sublime means in order to satisfy its metaphysical needs.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 60.
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Human Immortality: its Positive Argument, p.309-10
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols