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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
 
In a work of psychiatry, only the patients' remarks interest me; in a work of criticism, only the quotations.
 
People tend to talk about what people tend to talk about.
 
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
 
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
 
Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.
 
The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.
 
The shape of the response must meet the shape of the trouble.
 
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
 
When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.
 
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
 
The universe ought to be presumed too vast to have any character.
 
SEX: The most fun you can have without laughing.
 
I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television — but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
 
Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence.
 
Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
 
In my end is my beginning.
 
Demagogy leads to bigger disasters than the ones it promised to prevent.
 
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
 
If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim?
 
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