“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.
The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
