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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and…
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts are broken…
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.…
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why,…
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
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Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the…
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write.…
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What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.
— Carl Jung
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I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic…
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If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of…
— William James
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If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative…
— Josef Pieper
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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during…
— Steven Pinker
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