The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Nature has always had more force than education.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
We are rarely proud when we are alone.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
We have the best government that money can buy.
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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