Quotes 141 till 160 of 286.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
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Most people would rather die than think: many do.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics -
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Source: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity -
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.
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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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