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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
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All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.
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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect…
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original…
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It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will…
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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are…
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When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a…
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges…
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The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies…
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.
— Thomas Jefferson
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"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In…
— Janet Morris
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When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
— Nalo Hopkinson
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The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.
— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
— Nelson Mandela
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We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
— Soseki Natsume
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The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.
— David Coverdale
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Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will,…
— William Shakespeare
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