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I can't tell whether I am living in a dream or a nightmare.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left
Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning
People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.
In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.
Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.
Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.
The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.
The reason is, and by rights ought to be, slave to the emotions.
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.
I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
In the ordinary business of life punctuality is . . . necessary.
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence.
Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
We may often do as we please - but we cannot please as we please.
How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.
Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.
I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.