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Comment author: Darklight 02 September 2013 07:46:50PM 1 point [-]

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

-- Albert Einstein

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2013 08:02:40PM 6 points [-]

Checking Google failed to yield an original source cited for this quote.

Comment author: Darklight 03 September 2013 08:32:41PM *  14 points [-]

I got it from the biography, "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson, page 393.

The Notes for "Chapter Seventeen: Einstein's God" on page 618 state that the quote comes from:

Einstein to the Rev. Cornelius Greenway, Nov. 20, 1950, AEA 28-894.

Comment author: ESRogs 03 September 2013 10:12:37PM 1 point [-]

Great book, by the way.

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