Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. — H. L. Mencken
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it— this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ‘The Leningrad Notebooks’ (c .1735–50) in T. Besterman (ed.) Voltaire’s Notebook (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455
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Who has not the spirit of his age, Of his age has all the unhappiness. 12 Letter to Madame du Châtelet
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
Voltaire
Who has not the spirit of his age, Of his age has all the unhappiness. 12 Letter to Madame du Châtelet
Voltaire
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe