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- To us it seems that West-European civilization is civilization, but this is a narrow view.
- The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a…
- Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for…
- Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and…
- In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than in the lives…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world…
- A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside,…
- Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope…
- 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…
- One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of…
- St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one…
- My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery…
- The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or who…
- Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man…
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