“In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.”
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.