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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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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…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations…
— Bertrand Russell
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...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved.…
— Corinne Heline
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The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a…
— Harry S. Truman
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All work, the genuine work which we must achieve, is that which is most difficult and painful: the work on ourselves. If…
— Jean Gebser
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by…
— Richard Owen
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I was often humiliated to see men disputing for a piece of bread, just as animals might have done. My feelings on…
— Francois Arago
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I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life…
— Alexander Mackenzie
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