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A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.
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We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
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The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.
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Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.
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Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
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One always likes to do the things for which one has ability.
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So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
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Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.
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Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
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We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
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The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack.
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I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
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My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
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I do not think that religion is the most important element. We are held together rather by a body of tradition, handed down from father to son, which the child imbibes with his mother's milk. The atmosphere of our infancy predetermines our idiosyncrasies and predilections.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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Creativity is one of those hypnotic words which are prone to cast a spell upon our understanding and dissolve our thinking into haze.
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.
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Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.