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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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