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Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
 
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
 
Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
 
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
 
A want that is satisfied is no longer a want. The organism is dominated and its behavior organized only by unsatisfied needs. If hunger is satisfied, it becomes unimportant in the current dynamics of the individual.
 
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire life has been devoted to a delusion? But that’s a good question to ask. Of course we should ask that question and of course it’s going to offend people. Tough.
 
Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
 
PHILANTHROPIST: One who gives away what he should give back.
 
What we see depends mainly on what we look for
 
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
 
Life has become better, and no one seems to know about it.
 
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
 
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
 
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something, and it is only such love that can know freedom.
 
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
 
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
 
The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of life.
 
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
 
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.
 
Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.
 
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