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- We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of…
- 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…
- I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
- 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…
- What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
- The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. We…
- The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
- A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,…
- A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher.
- Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries…
- ... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
- What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a…
- Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they…
- Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
- Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the…
- Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
- To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a…
- 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…
- The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique…
- Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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