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- This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.
- It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical…
- But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is…
- The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the…
- [There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
- 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…
- At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed…
- No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
- I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with…
- The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of deliberate purpose,…
- The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an…
- Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
- Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
- Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed,…
- 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…
- For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy
- 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…
- Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
- An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
- Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.
- Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite…
- Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher,…
- All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public…
- I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour