We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
If a man has been his mother’s undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
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