Insignificance [antikvár]

'I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to Art and Science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's ever-shifting desires. With this negative motive there goes a positive one. Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of this world: he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience and thus to overcome it. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and security he cannot find . . Albert Einstein