Should we sit with idle hands because the consequences of an act are never quite to be foreseen, and hence all action is evil?
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
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...
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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...
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...
Helen Spurway concluded from the evidence of homology that the organism has only 'a restricted mutation spectrum' which 'determines its possibilities of evolution'.
Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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....
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.
The integrative powers of life are manifested in the phenomena of symbiosis between organelles, in the varied forms of partnership within the same species or between different species; in the phenomen...
The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.
Matrices vary from fully automatized skills to those with a high degree of plasticity; but even the latter are controlled by rules of the game which function below the level of awareness. These silent...