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"Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."

"The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity."

"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands."

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."

"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
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