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Pierre insisted that a time would come when there would be no more war.
“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
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“Necessity, it turns out, isn’t really the mother of invention; it’s the mother of the process that turns an invention into a product, and in late-eighteenth-century Europe, that mother was ready.”
― Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
― Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
― What Life Should Mean To You Hardcover
― What Life Should Mean To You Hardcover
“As the contrast between the militant and the industrial types is indicated by inversion of the belief that individuals exist for the benefit of the state into the belief that the state exists for the benefit of individuals; so the contrast between the industrial type and the type likely to be evolved from it is indicated by inversion of the belief that life is for work into the belief that work is for life.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
“Political dynasties have disappeared, but economic dynasties survive. I am not at the moment arguing either for or against this different treatment of the two forms of power; I am merely pointing out that it exists, and that most men are unconscious of it. When you consider how natural it seems to us that the power over the lives of others resulting from great wealth should be hereditary, you will understand better how men like Sir Robert Filmer could take the same view as regards the power of kings, and how important was the innovation represented by men who thought as Locke did.”
― History of Western Philosophy
― History of Western Philosophy
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