"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
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Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
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