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- Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves…
- The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure,…
- We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we…
- Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
- We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our…
- Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In…
- A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next…
- I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have…
- As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the…
- We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour