" Fullfillment on the moral and esthetic side ia a goal which lies closer to the preoccupations of art than it does to those of science. Of course, understanding of our fellow being is important. But this understanding becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feeling in joy and in sorrow. The cultivation of this most important spring of moral action is that which is left of religion when it was purified of the element of superstition. In this sense, religion forms an important part of education, when it receives far too little consideration, and that little not sufficiently systematic "
Albert Einstein on THE NEED FOR CULTURE, from ALBERT EINSTEIN'S IDEAS AND OPINIONS, based on Mein Welfblid, published by Wings Book, New York, Undated. (Originally from a letter read on the occasion of the 75th anniversarry of the Ethical Culture Society, New York 1961)
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