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In our society the elderly are regarded as biodegradable and superfluous, instead of what they really represent: a biological elite who, with weathered wisom, have much to offer the world.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

You certainly can’t tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

Do we have the right to rear animals in order to kill them so that we may feed appetites in which we have been artificially conditioned from childhood?

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual’s sensibilities in relation not only to one’s fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

The measure of man’s humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

The behavioral trait most frequently associated with the long-lived is placidity.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage.

The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

Human communication, ‘as the saying goes, is a clash of symbols’ it covers a multitude of signs. But it is more than media and messages, information and persuasion; it also meets a deeper need and serves a higher purpose. Whether clear or garbled, tumultuous or silent, deliberate or fatally inadvertent, communication is the ground of meeting and the foundation of community. It is, in short, the essential human connection.

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do.

Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

It’s by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

The Good Book – one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one’s internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Hatred is love frustrated.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The idea of “race” represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

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