The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. Individual existence impresses him as a sort of prison and he wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole The beginnings of cosmic religious feelings already appear at an early stage of development, e. g., in many of the Psalms of David and in the Prophets. Buddhism, as we have learned especially from the wonderful writing of Schopenhauer, contains a much stronger element of this. -- Albert Einstein, 1930
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