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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man read more
A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of read more
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely read more
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that read more
Evolution as such is no longer a theory for a modern author. It is as much a fact as that the earth revolves around the sun.
Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of read more
Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as the regular or necessary derivative. Scientific progress consists in pushing further back this ultimately given.
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is read more
You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.