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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into…

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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

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I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense… — Tony Campolo
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. — George Bernard Shaw
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near… — Louis Kronenberger
People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise. — Moliere
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity. — Seneca the Younger
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in… — Oswald Avery
A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an… — Max Perutz
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people,… — Wilbur Olin Atwater
Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something… — Walt Whitman
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained -… — George Washington

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