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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.
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The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
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Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
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When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level at which we have created them.... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humankind is to survive.
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No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake.
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Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive.
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To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.
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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
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Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.