When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or authoritative in his time, we must never rule out the possibility that what we have discovered is not the limit of his vision but only an example of his deliberate rhetorical accommodation to reigning prejudice which he does not share but thinks it best not to expose.
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
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The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.
Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
...brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
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Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.
