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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…
- I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include…
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that…
- Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives…
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.
- The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
- With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the…
- 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…
- There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
- I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even…
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,…
- Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
- And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those…
- I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous,…
- As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because…
- I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern…
- Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies…
- Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though…
- Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater…
- Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this…
- Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
- The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power
- I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if…
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