Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs. - Arthur Alfred Lynch

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Arthur Alfred Lynch

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

Fertile, Intuition, Mother, Reason

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Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and their origins there is something humiliating to our human race. No Hymn of Hate can ever be a paean of humanity.

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Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Contempt, Man, Men, Vanity, Winning

The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.

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Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth or death of princes, the rise or fall of millionaires, are matters that cause the sun to stand still or even produce the appearance of comets in the sky.

Appearance, Believe, Birth, Fall, Inclined, Order

Intuition is the soul within the soul.

Intuition, Soul

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