God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Albert EinsteinMany of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
Albert EinsteinIf people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinIf one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
Albert Einstein