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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian -
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.
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The root of the matter… the thing I mean… is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
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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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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
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The true use of a letter is to let one know that one is remembered and valued.
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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845) -
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boaaiabout it.
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There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
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