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Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.
[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.
Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.
Look at me. Look at me is one of the fundamental desires of human heart.
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.
Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.
There can't be a practical reason for believing something that is not true.
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.
Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.
Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.
As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.
Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.
Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.
A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value.
We believe, first and foremost, what makes us feel that we are fine fellows.
Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.