Einstein, Science and Literature

"Now I will add a few words unprepared. [laughter] A country becomes really a soul only in consciously serving the intellectual life, and in the case of our Jewish people it was really this endeavour, which conserved the Jewish people as a whole. We would not be in existence today, as a community of people, without this continued, or discontinued ... ehh ... activity into learning and in thought and in literature."


I totally agree with his opinion, without gaining insights from literature and humanities, the hidden possibilities of people would never bloom.

Encountering a new literature means a new meeting of people's mind which is often too deep to be seen by other people because we sometimes lack time and abilities to communicate our deep existence to the audience.

The power of words is very powerful.Daisaku Ikeda also said,

"Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands and enriches the personality like a seed that germinates after a long time and sends forth many blossom-laden branches.

People who can say of a book, 'this changed my life' truly understand the meaning of happiness. Reading that sparks inner revolution is desperately needed to escape drowning in the rapidly advancing information society. Reading is more than intellectual ornamentation; it is a battle for the establishment for the self, a ceaseless challenge that keeps us young and vigorous."

As we cultivate our mind and heart, deeper our self-understanding wuold be, and self-understanding is the key to navigate ourselves towards happier life.