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If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

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