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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

— Alexis Carrel

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Man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Man, The Unknown (1935)

Instead of leveling organic and mental inequalities, we should amplify them and construct greater men.

Man, The Unknown (1935)

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Man, The Unknown (1935)

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.

The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal. The ideal solution would be the suppression of each of these individuals as soon as he has proven himself to be dangerous.

Man, The Unknown (1935)

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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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