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> Thoughts & Ideas By Albert Einstein

I believe you mean "Ideas and Opinions" by Einstein :)

Link for anybody interested!

I definitely recommend buying it in paperback "Ideas and Opinions
Book by Albert Einstein" http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Opinions-Albert-Einstein/dp/0517884402?ie=UTF8&keywords=ideas%20and%20opinions&qid=1464431639&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1

Albert Einstein was very left wing. If you want to read more of his non-physics opinions, I recommend a book I once knew as "The Ideas and Opinions of Albert Einstein," but which now seems to have been shortened to "Ideas and Opinions."

He made quite number of memorable statements. He had no use for the military:

> This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in fours to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; unprotected spinal marrow was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! How vile and despicable seems war to me! I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. My opinion of the human race is high enough that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the peoples not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.

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Unprotected spinal marrow! Hacked to pieces! Colorful words, for sure.

Sometimes he sounded like a gnostic:

> A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

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He's interesting reading, if nothing else. A side of Einstein we rarely hear about today.

He actually wrote about his perspective on religion in his book Ideas and Opinions. I haven't read it myself, but a friend told me he had some interesting insights on Judaism. Amazon also has a collection of his writings on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms. Seems like the information is there if people are interested in his religious views.

I highly suggest Einstein's collected Ideas and Opinions. This particular passage comes from his essay 'Good and Evil'.

+ladybro:

> Thoughts & Ideas By Albert Einstein

I believe you mean "Ideas and Opinions" by Einstein :)

Link for anybody interested!