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"The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason."
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
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"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
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"The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind."
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"The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality."
"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."
"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."
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"But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group."
"It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one."
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