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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."


"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."


"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."


"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."


"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."


"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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