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God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
 
For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'
 
Our identity is not a stable essence, but an ongoing project of presentation and performance.
 
The meaning of your communication is the response you get.
 
Who lacks armament should avoid argument.
 
Mens sana in corpore sano is a foolish saying. The sound body is a product of the sound mind.
 
Our civilization seems to be suffering a second curse of Babel: Just as the human race builds a tower of knowledge that reaches to the heavens, we are stricken by a malady in which we find ourselves attempting to communicate with each other in countless tongues of scientific specialization... The only goal of science appeared to be analytical, i.e., the splitting up of reality into ever smaller units and the isolation of individual causal trains...We may state as characteristic of modern science that this scheme of isolable units acting in one-way causality has proven to be insufficient. Hence the appearance, in all fields of science, of notions like wholeness, holistic, organismic, gestalt, etc., which all signify that, in the last resort, we must think in terms of systems of elements in mutual interaction.
 
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
 
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
 
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
 
Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
 
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
 
"Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other words? "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
 
Grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
 
Man is the only animal that is to be dreaded.
 
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
 
We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.
 
We are here to make another world.
 
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
 
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
 
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