Quotes 161 till 180 of 286.
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness -
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Source: The Scientific Outlook -
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Source: Has Man a Future? (1962) -
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68 -
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
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