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- 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…
- One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30…
- I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include…
- 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…
- More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for…
- Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think that…
- 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…
- Some people would rather die than think.
- I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with…
- But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in…
- If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for…
- For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same…
- If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result…
- When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
- Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
- 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…
- Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
- I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.
- The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
- Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
- There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the…
- 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…
- To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
- An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right…
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