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But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
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Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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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. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
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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, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
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A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
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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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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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