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History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our concepti...more

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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population tha...more

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Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his mind was in much the same state that y...more

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I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental ...more

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Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the suggestion that only a very small proportion of people a...more

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It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever...more

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The development of the telescope marks, indeed, a new phase in human thought, a new vision of life. It is an extraordinary thing that the Greeks, with...more

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But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to cooperate and understand. I have taught the imagin...more

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Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done? The morning service was over, I was walking through the roads to clear my brain for the aftern...more

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What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting?

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But the old traditions of sectarian misdirection still in spite of a certain advance in technical efficiency, cripple and distort the general mind. "A...more