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“A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.”

Knows Mind May Hands Poor Four Shapes Contemplating Tails Limbs Rivals Apes Degenerates

Book:The collected poetry of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected poetry of Aldous Huxley

“Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.”

Men May Sometimes Reason Decision Answers Opinion Pure Judgment Prejudice Intuition Bigotry Superstitions Consensus Degenerates

Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.”

Should Tolerance Indifference Permit Degenerates

Book:Declaration of conscience

Source: Declaration of conscience

“I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.”

Thinking Used Technology Economic Internet Computer Aspect Tools Degenerates Economic Systems Misled

Author:Jerry Brown

“And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.”

Men World Years States Age Faces Three Next Taken Four Imagine This World Hundred Envy Degenerates

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc

“Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Animal Fool Notion Conviction Convinced Transcendental Degenerates

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.”

Thinking Way Different Problem School Spiritual Form Depends Pressure Ritual Followers Application Dogma Repetition Sufi Accustomed Commentators Degenerates

Author:Idries Shah

“Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.”

Mistake Quality Humility Hypocrisy Admiration Phases Degenerates Great Mistakes Defensiveness Phases Of Life

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.”

People Ifs Spirit Individual Nations Materialism Degenerates Withered

Book:Once Around the Sun

Source: Once Around the Sun

“And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?”

Ifs Men Individual Democracy Son Fellows Majority Minorities Fellow Man Traitor Degenerates Hume

Book:The Essential Jefferson

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.”

People Ifs Able Earth Science Heaven Existence Education Weak Storm Scholar Cowardly Degenerates Pacifist

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.”

Men Self Care Attention Balance Safety Take Care Curious Good Friend Moderation Degenerates Troublesome Disgraceful Health And Safety Take Care Of Your Health

Book:The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke

Source: The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke