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Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

— Magnus Hirschfeld

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Homosexuality was part of the plan of nature and creation just like normal love.

Testimony at a trial during the Eulenburg affair (1907)

In the ranks of a relatively small party, the anarchist, it seemed to me as if proportionately more homosexuals and effeminates are found than in others.

Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes (1914)

The more we delve into the essence of personality, the more we learn that in this world, certainly rich with natural beauty and things worthy of seeing, nothing is more attractive and worthier of knowing and experiencing than people.

Die Transvestiten: Eine Untersuchung über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb (1910)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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