"If religions are diseases of the human psyche,……" — Jack Vance
"If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind."
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45 Quotes by Jack Vance
Jack Vance has 45 quotes on this site.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do…
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges…
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm…
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Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant…
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own…
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This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails…
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on…
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to…
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a…
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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More Aggregate Quotes
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
— Emile M. Cioran
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of…
— Henry George
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The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought…
— George Washington
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent,…
— Charles Lyell
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I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled…
— Amartya Sen
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My share of the work of the world may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game…
— Ron Atkinson
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Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in…
— Unknown Author
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the…
— Paul Krugman
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The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse…
— Ben Bernanke
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History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life…
— Leo Tolstoy
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