Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemi...
Should we sit with idle hands because the consequences of an act are never quite to be foreseen, and hence all action is evil?
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
I don't approve of mixing ideologies, Ivanov continued. There are only two conceptions of human ethics, and they are at opposite poles. One of them is Christian and humane, declares the individual to...
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
Sympathy, conscience, disgust, despair, repentance, and atonement are for us repellent debauchery. To sit down and let oneself be hypnotized by one’s own navel, to turn up one’s eyes and humbly offer...
Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...
I am trying to stress a point which they do not sufficiently emphasize, or tend to overlook altogether-namely, that the organism is not a mosaic aggregate of elementary physico-chemical processes, but...
Huxley was haunted by the fear that this 'Final Revolution', brought about by the combined effect of drugs and the mass media, could create 'within a generation or so for entire societies a sort of pa...
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
Hay dos clases de valentía: la del valiente y la del cobarde
The two together-intellectual illumination and emotional catharsis-are the essence of the aesthetic experience. The first constitutes the moment of truth; the second provides the experience of beauty....
Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical...
Helen Spurway concluded from the evidence of homology that the organism has only 'a restricted mutation spectrum' which 'determines its possibilities of evolution'.
Complexity of thought is no measure of originality.
As we ascend to the hierarchies of living matter, we find, even on the lowest level observable through the electron microscope, sub-cellular structures-organelles-of staggering complexity. And the mos...
God seems to have the receiver off the hook.
روباشف آخرینبار که به زندان افتاده بود بارها کتک خورده بود، ولی دربارهی این روش (شکنجه) فقط شایعاتی شنیده بود. یاد گرفته بود که هر درد جسمانیِ شناختهشدهای قابل تحمل است. اگر کسی پیشاپیش بداند که د...