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We may be seeing a coming together of the humanities and the science of human nature.
 
There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity
 
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
 
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
 
Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.
 
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity
 
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
 
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. 
 
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.
 
We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.
 
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
 
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
 
Isn't keeping statistics on violence a form of violence?
 
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
 
The characteristic of the organism is first that it is more than the sum of its parts and second that the single processes are ordered for the maintenance of the whole.
 
There is only one thing in the world that is worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
 
There can never be surprises in logic.
 
Our civilization is characterized by the word progress. Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves.
 
A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my suede jacket and said, "Don't you know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" I said "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too".
 
There is direction but there is no destination.
 
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