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- The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces, the more amazing becomes what human beings have achieved.
- I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.
- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
- The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate,…
- In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one…
- ...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike…
- At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end…
- 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…
- The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average…
- Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
- 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…
- But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the…
- More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
- The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it…
- Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.
- While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
- In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more…
- If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others,…
- Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and…
- It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
- 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…
- Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world…
- The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be…
- There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton…
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