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Today  ·  22 October 2026

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert EinsteinThe Expanded Quotable Einstein, p. 123, 2000
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Today’s quote is filed under #relativity. That topic leads to Plato, who is also quoted on morality – and morality leads to Confucius. Every quote here connects to the next by author or topic.

  1. Albert Einstein  ·  today“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
  2. #relativity
  3. Plato“Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.”
  4. #morality
  5. Confucius“To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.”
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