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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ”
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. ”
I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement. ”
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals. ”
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ”
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ”
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. ”
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ”
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ”
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ”