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Without context words and actions have no meaning at all.
 
an idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.
 
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. 
 
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
 
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem in my opinion to characterize our age.
 
I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
 
Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.
 
Thus, when a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce...in the same individual, we have the best possible conditions for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries. Such men do not remain mere critics and understanders with their intellect. Their ideas posses them, they inflict them, for better or worse, upon their companions or their age.
 
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
 
The fear of separation is all that unites.
 
Another alternative would have been to give you what’s called a popular-scientific lecture, that is a lecture intended to make you believe that you understand a thing which actually you don’t understand, and to gratify what I believe to be on of the lowest desires of modern people, namely the superficial curiosity about the latest discoveries of science.
 
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
 
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder."
 
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
 
Wisdom is the strength of the weak.
 
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
 
Sometimes you can observe a lot by watching. 
 
Violence is often caused by a surfeit of morality and justice, at least as they are conceived in the minds of the perpetrators.
 
The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
 
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
 
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