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• Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
• To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
• We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the…
• Even the most scientific investigator in science, the most thoroughgoing Positivist, cannot dispense with fiction; he must at least make use of…
• In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the…
• The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that…
• Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
• It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
• Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
• The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.
• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at…
• Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

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