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““To predict tomorrow's weather, I need not take into account the state of mind of the Emperor of Manchukuo.””

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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

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In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the behaviour of…

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The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this…

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I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never…

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The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that…

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If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to…

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But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

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“What is not so generally recognized is that there can be no way of proving that the existence of a god, such as the…

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Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

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It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

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There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ...…

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If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it…

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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of…

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The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome…

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A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

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Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

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“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are so ugly…

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“By choosing to forgive, you are choosing to love. By choosing to operate in love, you are choosing to operate in an unconditional state…

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If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

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“Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind.”

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“Yevgenia had never realized that the human back could be so expressive, could so vividly reflect a person’s state of mind. People had a…

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“Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind,…

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Do you believe in luck, Ludlow?" I had thought about this more than once in my life. "I believe some poeple are luckier than…

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