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- Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
- In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the…
- 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…
- This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
- The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to…
- Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses…
- We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
- Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
- The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness…
- 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…
- It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in…
- The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility…
- 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…
- A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity…
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take…
- Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other,…
- Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than…
- Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of…
- Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
- Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.
- I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is…
- No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
- The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion…
- There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice…
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