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- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
- If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
- The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they…
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This…
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they…
- And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of…
- Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul…
- Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
- Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
- Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities…
- For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same…
- You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.
- Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal…
- I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.
- In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
- In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there…
- When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts…
- Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at…
- It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe…
- Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard…
- One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring…
- If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well…
- If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world,…
- There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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