"I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it." - Albert Einstein

“I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.”

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Source: Interview with Rabindranath Tagore (14 April 1930), published in The Religion of Man (1930) by Rabindranath Tagore, p. 222, and in The Tagore Reader (1971) edited by Amiya Chakravarty

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