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Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
Hatred is love frustrated.
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty.
The only measure of what you believe is what you do.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.
Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
No one should be required to see America for the first time.
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.
The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.
The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.
The way I change my life is to act as if I am the person I really want to be.
An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.
Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
