One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. - (Einstein, Albert - Acceptance)

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. - (Einstein, Albert - Action)

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. - (Einstein, Albert - Action)

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. - (Einstein, Albert - Action)

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. - (Einstein, Albert - Action)

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. - (Einstein, Albert - Action)

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age. - (Einstein, Albert - Age and Aging)

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. - (Einstein, Albert - America)

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. - (Einstein, Albert - Apathy)

If 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. - (Einstein, Albert - Ask)

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - (Einstein, Albert - Bargains)

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. - (Einstein, Albert - Behavior)

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth. - (Einstein, Albert - Change)

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge. - (Einstein, Albert - Change)

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind. - (Einstein, Albert - Change)