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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…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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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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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in…
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be…
— Ramachandra Guha
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.…
— Erwin Chargaff
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities
— Cesare Lombroso
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
— Theodor Reik
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Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,…
— Arthur Koestler
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Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
— Oscar Wilde
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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
— Criss Jami
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You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.
— Joe Klein
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
— Oscar Wilde
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