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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
- Much
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sin is geographical.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- Healthy Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
- Evidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Idealism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
- Insight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
- Fanatics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- Conquer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
- Form
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
All movements go too far.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
- Conquer
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- Nov 07, 2020
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Nov 07, 2020
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Gossips
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
- Nov 07, 2020
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
- Extreme
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
- Mankind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Fact
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- Nov 07, 2020
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
- Great Extent
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- Nov 07, 2020
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
- Ferocity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
- Fat Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
- Cooperation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- Awareness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
- Nov 07, 2020