The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
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When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
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To think is to differ.
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