Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every mammal, from mouse to elephant.
Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.
Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.
All the work of the crystallographers serves only to demonstrate that there is only variety everywhere where they suppose uniformity ... that in nature there is nothing absolute, nothing perfectly regular.
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.
Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.
Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.
