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- The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
- Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,…
- Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such…
- You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.
- Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion…
- Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control…
- 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…
- I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of…
- If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to…
- If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been…
- We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us…
- Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to…
- No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying…
- These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second…
- Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
- Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man…
- No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its…
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