Robert Briffault Quotes

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• No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.
• The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He…
• Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures…
• The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male,…
• The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The…
• Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.
• For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
• The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.
• The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea,…
• In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as…

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