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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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Sin is geographical.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage...

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Change is one thing, progress is another. 'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter o...

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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Wisdom

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left. War

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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. War

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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.

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Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off.

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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

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Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

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Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.

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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

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In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for 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 can apply it.

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An individual human existence should be like a river

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One must care about a world one will not see.

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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress -- though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.

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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

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