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Albert Einstein. must guide its conduct by instinct , by practical hand - to - mouth considerations , by its inborn moral sense , if it has one . Except in the very simplest of matters its newly awakened intellect is not yet a very safe ...
Albert Einstein. must guide its conduct by instinct , by practical hand - to - mouth considerations , by its inborn moral sense , if it has one . Except in the very simplest of matters its newly awakened intellect is not yet a very safe ...
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... instinct and emotion . Instincts change slowly and are therefore useless for this purpose . So we have to return to the emotions , and of those the most powerful are love and fear ; and , in the past , the needed sanctions for popular ...
... instinct and emotion . Instincts change slowly and are therefore useless for this purpose . So we have to return to the emotions , and of those the most powerful are love and fear ; and , in the past , the needed sanctions for popular ...
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... instinct which we call nature , and , on the other hand , that world of human motives and values which , for convenience ' sake , we distinguish as the world of ex- clusively human things . Nothing is clearer than the fact that we must ...
... instinct which we call nature , and , on the other hand , that world of human motives and values which , for convenience ' sake , we distinguish as the world of ex- clusively human things . Nothing is clearer than the fact that we must ...
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