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I love Humanity but I hate humans.
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A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
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Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
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Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
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The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
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Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.
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I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
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Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.
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It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
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If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world.
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Experience alone can decide on truth.
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There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.
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In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
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Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?
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The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.