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- I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian…
- Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
- Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both.
- 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…
- The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
- 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…
- But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is…
- The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each…
- Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to…
- In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
- On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep…
- If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then…
- 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…
- Answering questions is a major part of sex education. Two rules cover the ground. First, always give a truthful answer to a question; secondly, regard…
- Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological,…
- Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite…
- While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
- Descartes, the father of modern philosophy ... would never-so he assures us-have been led to construct his philosophy if he had had only one teacher,…
- Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is…
- Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people…
- Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
- No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
- Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour