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If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a read more
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we read more
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable read more
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or read more
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
Of mankind in general, the parts are greater than the whole.
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, read more
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
For nothing human foreign was to him.
For nothing human foreign was to him.
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this read more
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
