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- One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30…
- Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit…
- Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...
- From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite…
- Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may…
- It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
- The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to…
- We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
- In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa…
- The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a…
- Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the fact…
- In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have…
- Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can…
- I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
- For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from…
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in…
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
- William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but…
- The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from…
- Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.
- The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view…
- The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,…
- 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…
- The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.
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