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My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
 
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
 
There are many difficulties impeding the rapid spread of reasonableness. One of the main difficulties is that it always takes two to make a discussion reasonable. Each of the parties must be ready to learn from the other. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
 
You're a prisoner of your own illusions - about yourself and about the world.
 
When you love, you are not lonely. The sense of loneliness arises only when you are frightened of being alone and of not knowing what to do. When you are controlled by ideas, isolated by beliefs, then fear is inevitable; and when you are afraid, you are completely blind.
 
CRIMINAL: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
 
But it’s in the nature of progress that it erases its tracks, and its champions fixate on the remaining injustices and forget how far we have come.
 
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
 
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
 
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
 
The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it.
 
If man were wise, he would gauge the true worth of anything by its usefulness and appropriateness to his life.
 
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
 
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
 
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
 
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
 
The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.
 
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
 
To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many enemies.
 
Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already.
 
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