We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Intellect   
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Subject:
Science   
Thinking   
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.
Subject:
Life   
Simplicity   
Mind   
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Subject:
Imagination   
Science   
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Subject:
Perseverance   
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Subject:
Maturity   
Youth   
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
Subject:
Knowledge   
Experience   
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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
Subject:
Religion   
Spiritual   
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Subject:
Conscience   
Nation   
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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Subject:
Confusion   
Perfection   
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
Subject:
Thinking   
Human Nature   
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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
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Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
Subject:
Life   
Death   
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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Subject:
Sanity   
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Subject:
Technology   
Progress   
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Subject:
Imagination   
Logic   
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An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Subject:
Democracy   
Capitalism   
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Duty   
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Subject:
Stupidity   
Human Nature   
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