Three Disturbing Quotes From Albert Einstein That Changed My Outlook of Reality

Discover the pearls of wisdom from one of the most mind-blowing minds in history.

Albert Einstein was one of the most brilliant thinkers in human history, but his uniqueness has a dark side.

He was a true master of compressing the maximum amount of information in the minimum amount of space in the form of aphorisms as if trying to hide bitter truths in precious short sentences.

Simplicity can hide an unfathomable depth of information when you meditate on it.

The point is that when you meditate on his aphorisms, you understand the actual dimension of some of the bitter and ugly truths we refuse to observe to continue living immersed in our comfortable ignorance.

Phrases that are like buckets of cold water that wake us up suddenly after we meditate on them.

Here are three.

“The greatest mystery of the world is that it is comprehensible.” — Albert Einstein.

Boom!

How can so many people believe nothing makes sense in a world where everything fits perfectly?

A world where even the tiniest piece fulfills its function in a reality that works with the precision of a Swiss watch.

• The earth is just the proper distance from the sun to allow life.
• All celestial bodies describe circular or elliptical orbits of predictable periodicity (it takes approximately 75 years for Halley’s comet to appear in the sky).
• Trees curiously transform CO2 into oxygen so that we can breathe.
• DNA strands contain the genetic information responsible for the development and functioning of our bodies.

And all that is accidental?

It cannot be accidental that we have a mind capable of understanding, analyzing, and transforming the world around us at our convenience to have greater hope and quality of life, as well as entertainment and technologies so exotic that it makes my hair stand on end when I think about them.

A mind with such extraordinary clarity and awareness that continually demonstrates that to believe is to create.

How can this world be the result of chance, a simple anomaly, if everything can be explained with mathematics and there are a series of physical laws that are fulfilled throughout the length and breadth of the earth so that we can inhabit it?

It seems naive to think that nothing makes sense and everything results from chance.

It’s as if we play Minecraft or the Sims, and we are precisely the Sims.

And I know that’s something that many of us think because otherwise, the movie The Truman Show wouldn’t have been made.

Sometimes, I feel like I’m in a fishbowl or a giant terrarium, and someone or something is watching me from outside, which is disturbing.

“The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” — Albert Einstein.

This sentence is infinitely more disturbing when you remember that Albert Einstein was employed in a patent office :-)

As Albert points out, there is nothing genuinely original. It’s all a combination of parts, a teamwork that has existed since the beginning of time.

Human minds are the true oil wells. In them are the ideas that will take our civilization to the next level.

The greatness of a society comes from the sum of its parts.

You have to attract talent, not banish it or hide it.

What good is it to have the most expensive diamond in the world in the middle of the desert? You won’t be able to sell it, and it will end up buried in the sand when you die with it in your hand.

We do the same with valid people.

How many potentials, doctors, scientists, artists, and musicians are dying in the conflicts we face globally today?

They are all diamonds that bury the desert sand of human greed and ignorance.

You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to realize that we need each other to survive.

If only we were more mindful of this quote from Einstein, “We mortals achieve immortality in the things we create in common that remain after us.”

“The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who permit evil.” — Albert Einstein.

Many people — and I won’t single anyone out — are interested in things going wrong.

People who know that out of every crisis, an opportunity is born. People who sell us conflict as part of progress.

They have specialized so much in it that they make crises their way of life.

People who plant seeds of discord between two sides and then sell a (temporary) solution to both sides.

These people don’t want to change things or solve problems.

As Einstein said, “Man’s problem is not in the atomic bomb but in his heart.”

It is a person’s intentions that are dangerous, not the tools that people use.

The atomic force is both a mind-blowing source of energy and a horrible weapon.

But the intention of the human being in charge of that fabulous power determines whether that energy is used for good or evil.

Unfortunately, conflict has been a constant part of our humanity's history.

And the human heart can be as dark as a black hole.

And that gives me the creeps, and we all have to change.

We cannot continue to look the other way; we cannot allow evil to happen.

A virtual hug

AG

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