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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life. "
— Bertrand Russell
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"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
— Bertrand Russell
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"It is impossible to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
— Epictetus
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"The attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices."
— Bertrand Russell
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"All of life is a low-intensity survival challenge, and a survival emergency is just a high-intensity life challenge."
— James C. Jones
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"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?"
— Joseph Stalin
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"While life in its merely biological aspects is a miracle and a secret, man in his human aspects is an unfathomable secret to himself—and to his fellow man. We know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we may make, we do not know ourselves."
— Erich Fromm
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"Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. [Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker.]"
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The concentrated meditation is the highest activity there is, an activity of the soul, which is possible only under the condition of inner freedom and independence."
— Erich Fromm
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"L'amour est l'enfant de la liberte! Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination."
— Erich Fromm