Quotes 81 till 100 of 286.
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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
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Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Source: The Philosophy of Logical Atomism -
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Source: Collection 1: , Brighthouse -
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
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If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
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