“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.”
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Probable attribution
A source trail connects this quotation to Albert Einstein and Ideas and Opinions, but the exact English wording has not been confirmed in a primary text. The attribution is therefore probable rather than definitive.
Likely origin: Ideas and Opinions
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This page records the wording "The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life…," which centers on really, valuable, thing. A concrete trail points toward Einstein, but the exact English form remains unconfirmed; the page therefore labels it as attributed to him while preserving its creativity and life context.
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- Use "The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life…" in a creativity discussion, then ask which concrete claim the wording makes.
- Compare its treatment of really with valuable in a lesson, essay, or editorial note before drawing a conclusion.
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