Comment: Please comment on some of Albert Einstein’s quotes.

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

My Response: Yes, the impossible is the absurd. One who tries to reach something through completely absurd actions, agrees with them, and rises above his reason, which in Kabbalah is called “faith above reason” and that person can truly move forward. All others are in a state of degradation.

Faith is also knowledge, only each time it stands above me.

Question: So do you not accept earthly logic?

Answer: Earthly logic is animal logic. What I can grasp with my mind, whatever it may be, is animal mind, animal logic.

Einstein was great because, although he was not a Kabbalist, he thought like one. That is, I accept nature against my reason: “Such-and-such speed, such-and-such mass—can it change? It changes.”

Mass changes. How can it change? It just does.

Time can flow backward. Why? We do not know why, but let us accept that it can. What we perceive through our senses should not be taken a priori as an eternal constant.

Anyone who wants to see immediate results of his work should go into shoemaking.

Answer: Yes, that is well said. It is good when you do something and see the result right away. You even get paid. You finish your day, make a pair of boots, earn a few rubles, have a drink, eat, go to bed, and snore peacefully.

Comment: But that is what a person wants—to check a box: “The day was spent well.”

My Response: That is what the animal inside us wants. The animal in each of us desires only that! To lie down on a featherbed, snore, and that is it.

Question: So you say that is an animal state? And the human state is not like that?

Answer: A human being cannot be satisfied with that. There is nothing you can do. You were created so that you cannot be satisfied!

Question: But still, is there rest in life?

Answer: No, there is no rest in life. It all depends on a person’s nature. You might want it, but no—and actually, on the other hand, you would not even want that! How could you want it?!

Everyone knows that something is impossible. Then comes a fool who does not know this—and he makes the discovery.

Answer: And the most important thing is that everyone tells him how it should be done, but he cannot, he disagrees. He does not want to do it that way.

Question: But those who tell him that know it is impossible?

Answer: Yes, yet he still does it in his own way, twists it differently, and as a result he opens a new path.

Question: So do you think that science should, in essence, be entered by fools?

Answer: Science should be entered by those who can deny science, and by doing so, advance it each time.

After all, science itself, in principle, progresses through faith above knowledge, just like Einstein, like Tesla, although we know little about him. These are the kinds of revolutionaries I mean.

I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Answer: Absolutely right. I completely agree with him!

I do not think that humanity will restrain itself in the next world war, if it happens. It depends only on whether the Jews fulfill their historical function. If they unite, then it will not happen and we will reach unity by a good path. If not, then through immense suffering—ours and the world’s.

Question: Do you think that humanity, in the next war, if it happens, will not restrain itself from using weapons of destruction?

Answer: That it will not restrain itself—absolutely! The only question is to what extent it will not.

Because there are people who say that limited nuclear wars are possible, but I cannot imagine anyone being able to hold back.

After all, nuclear weapons are now in the hands of many countries that are quietly sitting and waiting.

I am afraid Einstein is right. If there is a world war, it will push humanity back by many, many thousands of years.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 2/26/18

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