The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalcul...
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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.
Unfortunately, we-especially in the United States-have become increasingly mechanized, so that today we feel very strongly that if we can take anything out of human hands and especially out of the hum...
There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate r...
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
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.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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 natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
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.
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth th...
The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe don't read what they write don't ask them what they believe just observe what they do.
It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record - and its p...
Human communication, 'as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols' it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and ser...
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
