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  • MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod of Judea, all the famous soldiers have been practical exponents of the Malthusian idea.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Talking Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Real Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Religious Quotes , Ideas Quotes
  • We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Intelligent Quotes , Ideas Quotes