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- One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a…
- The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the…
- By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely…
- Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one…
- It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the…
- A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved…
- Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
- It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
- The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not…
- The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no…
- There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or…
- The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got…
- You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
- There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to…
- Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on.…
- The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
- The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
- A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about…
- The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they…
- The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a…
- Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of…
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