The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief. Animal Farm
Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted. Beware of Pity
The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight. Unpublished fragment
To ordain the future in advance in this way, man must first have learned to distinguish necessary events from chance ones, to think causally, to see and anticipate distant eventualities as if they belonged to the present, to decide with certainty what is the goal and what the means to it, and in general be able to calculate and compute. Genealogy of Morals
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