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- There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be…
- 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…
- There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be…
- The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles…
- Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives…
- 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…
- Certain characteristics of the subject are clear. To begin with, we do not in this subject deal with particular things or particular properties: we deal…
- Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that…
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- 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…
- The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
- Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become…
- The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake.
- It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.
- 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,…
- Organized people are just too lazy to look for things
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at…
- Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
- 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…
- If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well…
- Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.
- All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed…
- The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to…
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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