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- Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
- All human activity is prompted by desire.
- We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and…
- The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to…
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
- Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
- It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
- If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
- I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and…
- The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
- All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
- Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the…
- In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have…
- The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the…
- Historically, it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him.
- [There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
- I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
- There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be…
- For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from…
- To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this…
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
- And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of…
- At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed…
- The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from…
- The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle