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«The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use»
Author: Arthur Koestler
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Evolution
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evolution, organ, overshoots, overshot, prehistoric, providing, species, The Brain
«We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.»
Author: Desmond Morris
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investigated, investigates, investigating, species, survival, trick
«To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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activity, bacteria, congenial, culture, diminishes, disappear, Gods Themselves, measures, multiply, progressively, proper, species, sterilize, sterilized, The Gods Themselves, virulent
«The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your own species, to commit suicide, and to swear to lie»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
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Crime
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associate, Commit Suicide, crimes, Great Mother, murder, species, suicide, swear, vex, vexes, vexing
«We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ''truth'': we ''know'' (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called ''usefulness'' is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.»
«The falseness of an opinion is not, for us, any objection to it. The question is how far it is life furthering, life preserving, species preserving and perhaps species creating.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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creating, falseness, furthering, objection, preserving, species, The Question