Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Einstein's view on Morality

"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously.  I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere.  My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly.  I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem - the most important of all human problems."

- Albert Einstein (1947)

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