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posted by Staff, on 12 october 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.

Peter Singer (Peter Albert David Singe)

posted by Staff, on 12 october 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Science and technologies)

Good and strong will. Mechanism must precede science learning. Also in morals and religion? Too much discipline makes one narrow and kills proficiency. Politeness belongs, not to discipline, but to polish, and thus comes last.

Immanuel Kant

posted by Staff, on 11 october 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)

It may be that if I lead the life I've planned for myself it may affect others; the effect may be no greater than the ripple caused by a stone thrown in a pond, but one ripple causes another.

William Somerset Maugham

posted by Staff, on 11 october 2026 0.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)

If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table, a fool's notion of history.

Honor� de Balzac

posted by Staff, on 10 october 2026 12.00 in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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