The Delusion of Human Consciousness
Albert Einstein by Arthur Sasse Image Courtesy Elite Choice
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955), often regarded as the father of modern physics was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity (which may be on the verge of being disproved). He received a Nobel Prize in 1921 for “services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”.
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