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There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
We all know we're going to die one day, but who wants to think about it? What's sustainable is joy, pleasure and freedom.
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
I think we really have to take a good, hard look at our system of corporate consolidated press. We need to break them up.
Without third parties, all forward movement stops. They're essential. They're not just OK. They are absolutely essential.
When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.
We must support as much as possible the child's desires for activity; not wait on him, but educate him to be independent.
The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.
You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.
The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
I don't like being successful; the subjects which sit in my head are annoyed and jealous of what has already been written.
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil
By itself, practice does not make perfect. Those of us with a ten-year-old son practicing the trumpet may understand that.
When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it.
Meaning is malleable: take it out, you get nihilism and despair. Put it in, you get sacredness and something most special.
Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Good Chianti, that aged, majestic and proud wine, enlivens my heart, and frees it painlessly from all fatigue and sadness.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.
The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.
All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.
It is true that we cannot make a genius. We can only give to teach child the chance to fulfil his potential possibilities.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.
It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.