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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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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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Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
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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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In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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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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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
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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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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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People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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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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I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one?
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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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Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive.
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Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
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Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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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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Everything has changed, except our way of thinking.