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" A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. "
Reasoning
Observation
Lead
" All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. "
Need
Men
Know
" All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. "
Moments
Wisdom
People
" Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind. "
Greatest
Enemies
Mankind
" Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. "
Hurt
Effort
Everyone
" Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal. "
Useless
Development
Why
" Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality. "
Life
Hard
Human
" In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. "
Important
Man
More
" Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. "
Perception
Close
Reality
" Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. "
Life
Rock
Through
" Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. "
Life
Laws
Jealousy
" Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. "
Cannot
Without
Suffering
" Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations. "
Work
Money
Hate
" Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. "
Peace
Strength
Spiritual
" Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. "
Science
Sense
Reality
" The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today. "
Today
Been
Great
" The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog. "
Fog
Us
Reality
" The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met. "
Organs
Must
Man
" The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. "
Give
Society
Destiny
" The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal. "
Energetic
Government
Against
" The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. "
Human
Multiple
Love
" The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. "
Day
Morning
Results
" The quality of life is more important than life itself. "
Important
Life
More
" Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic. "
Power
Pride
Logic
" To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. "
Any
Act
Given
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