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- Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help…
- There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness…
- We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we…
- Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.
- There is no word in our language which has been so much misused and prostituted as the word love. It has been preached by those…
- When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
- Women are equal because they are not different any more.
- I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department…
- The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.
- Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total… Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He…
- The more the drive toward life is thwarted, the stronger is the drive toward destruction; the more life is realized, the less is the strength…
- Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened…
- ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our…
- We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we…
- Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are standardized and can…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle