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A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in w...  
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everythi...  
All movements go too far.  
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier cen...  
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he...  
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of...  
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise t...  
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, l...  
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the...  
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted...  
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources o...  
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself se...  
God is a reality of spirit... He cannot... be conceived as an object, ...  
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing p...  
I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one in...  
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular ...  
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of...  
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.  
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite...   Nature
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desire...  
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question ma...  
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors...   Equality
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have bee...  
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that pr...  
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggle...  
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to ma...  
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is t...  
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence ...  
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, ...  
Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.  
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total ...  
Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which n...  
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.  
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.  
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of ...  
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely ...  
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in pre...  
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.  
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matte...  
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.  
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magis...  
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief ...  
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid sta...  
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as ca...  
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reason...   Patriotism
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing f...  
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, ...  
Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for pe...  
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habi...  
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.  
Sin is geographical.  
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in prai...  
That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal ha...  
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below...  
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of ...  
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever ...  
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that...  
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which ther...  
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is rea...  
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small ...  
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to...  
The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as poss...  
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.  
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the int...  
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more th...  
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if...  
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always...  
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to ...  
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.  
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Tho...  
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my lif...  
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of ...  
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.  
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already thre...   Love
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed...  
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.  
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one o...  
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, w...  
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or nea...