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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
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Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
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There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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