that have impacted the world, in an article I read yesterday, ‘Shared luminosity’, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, has talked about 5 powerful minds that have influenced the world’s thinking: Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Karl Marx (1818-1883), Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1939), and Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Not too far apart, and with some overlapping, these minds have left a legacy we cannot ignore.
I’m mentioning only two of the thoughts Gandhi has written about…..deep thoughts that often trouble us. The first one is relevant in the Ukraine-Russia war which might just spill over to the rest of the world….in fact, it is relevant to every country, as there is some kind of conflict in every corner of the world….it has to do with our humanity—something we tend to forget when looking at those who are seemingly different from us….and yet, in fact, are as human as we are. The second has to do with the power of our minds and how we use that power…
‘Days before he died, Einstein signed, along with Bertrand Russell and nine others (including Linus Pauling and Joliot Curie) the ‘Russell-Einstein Manifesto’ of July 9,1995, which highlighted the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and called upon world leaders to renounce war and seek peaceful resolutions to international conflict. Towards its end, the text ended memorably with the words, “Remember your humanity, forget the rest.”
I do not doubt when Einstein pondered these words, the words from the author of Faust (Goethe) resounded in his mind: We are our devils; we drive ourselves out of our own Edens.”’
The rest of this wonderful article can be found here: