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The good life is love guided by reason.
 
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
 
Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.
 
I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.
 
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.
 
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
 
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
 
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
 
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's....she changes it more often !!
 
I would ask something more of this world if it had something more.
 
When I speak of reason or rationalism, all I mean is the conviction that we canlearn through criticism of our mistakes and errors, especially through criticism by others, and eventually also through self-criticism. The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that mere criticism as such helps us achieve new ideas. But he does think that, in the sphere of ideas, only critical discussion can help us sort the wheat from the chaff. He is well aware that acceptance or rejection of an idea is never a purely rational matter; but he thinks that only critical discussion can give us the maturity to see an idea from more and more sides and to make a correct judgement of it.
 
There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.
 
Living systems are units of interactions; they exist in an ambience. From a purely biological point of view they cannot be understood independently of that part of the ambience with which they interact: the niche; nor can the niche be defined independently of the living system that specifies it.
 
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
 
We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
 
It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.
 
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing whatsoever on reason or mental health. Just as there is a folie à deux there is a folie à millions. The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same mental pathology does not make these people sane.
 
You do not examine legislation in light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
 
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
 
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
 
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