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- We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and…
- 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.
- In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men…
- [There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view…
- The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,…
- Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the world and human…
- Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
- A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became…
- When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by…
- The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.
- 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,…
- A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself…
- From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with…
- Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.
- 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…
- The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy…
- The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon…
- A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
- The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the…
- With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by…
- Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
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- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no… — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius