Albert Einstein vs. Friedrich Nietzsche

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

1929

"No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

1929

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

1929

"There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!"

"And the traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we wa…"

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

"Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which…"

"Liebe Mutter! Heute eine freudige Nachricht. H. A. Lorentz hat mir telegraphiert, dass die englischen Expeditionen die Lichtablenkung an der Sonne wirklich b…"

"For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of Being who …"

"We are inclined to overemphasize the material influences in history. The Russians especially make this mistake. Intellectual values and ethnic influences, tr…"

"Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different at…"

"Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he …"

"Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets."

"It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."

"Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less."

"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

"Geh Recht viel spazieren, dass Du Recht gesund wirst und lies nicht gar zu viel sondern spar Dir noch was auf bis Du gross bist."