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- If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
- But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear. It is fear…
- Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
- 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…
- Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
- 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…
- Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to…
- Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This…
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
- Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their…
- The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few…
- 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…
- 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…
- In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men…
- 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…
- All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.
- Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the…
- My conclusion is that there is no reason to believe any of the dogmas of traditional theology and, further, that there is no reason to…
- Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they…
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the…
- To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this…
- 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…
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