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“Fallen myths can instill venom.”

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Denis de Rougemont was a Swiss writer renowned for his studies on love and marriage. His works profoundly explored the relationship between human emotions and social structures. more

“The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.”

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Author:John B. S. Haldane

“The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.”

Problem Lasts Past Evil Path Flower Destruction Giants Secular Blossoming

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.”

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Author:John B. S. Haldane

“We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.”

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Author:John B. S. Haldane

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