“Generals are, as a matter of course, allowed to be far more idiotic than ordinary human beings are permitted to be.”

Our Federal Union (1975), p. 248
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Isaac Asimov303

American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

Abraham Maslow book Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 123.

“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you
realize.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

“Honest to god, Clare, you act like the dress is more important than you being shot!”
Of course it is! It’s a Versace, you idiot! Bring help! I’m going to save this dress at all costs.” - Sam to Clare”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: Even Vampires Get the Blues

“I take it that reasonable human conduct is part of the ordinary course of things.”

Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley (1828–1921) English judge

"The City of Lincoln" (1889), L. R. 15 P. D. 18.

“It is a religion in so far as, having shown us the course of ordinary evolution, it also puts before us and advises a method of shortening that course, so that by conscious effort we may progress more directly towards the goal.”

Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934) English theosophist

A Textbook of Theosophy (1912), Chapter One

“The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; — that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.”

Robert Owen (1771–1858) Welsh social reformer

3rd Part
The Book of the New Moral World (1836-1844)

“It is, of course, men who are more likely to inhibit themselves for the sake of appearing to be sensible and dependable.[…] If pressed, I will agree that more women than men wish to appear wonderfully sensitive and intuitive, and may stop being realistic […] in order to deceive themselves and other people. On the other hand, women in general tend to be more realistic and yet in certain matters more open-minded than men, more ready to resist that pressure of opinion. They are less likely to be put into blinkers by ideas.
Moreover […] as a rule the average woman notices far more than the average man; she has a better eye for detail than he has; she makes a more alert witness.”

J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) English writer

Source: Man and Time (1964), Ch. 8, p. 182

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every
generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Boldness
Essays (1625)

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