Zitat des Tages von Ashley Montagu:
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.