To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. Votes: 7
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. Votes: 4
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. Votes: 0
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Votes: 0
One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain. Votes: 0
It's coexistence or no existence. Votes: 0
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. Votes: 0
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Votes: 0
Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Votes: 0
Envy is the basis of democracy. Votes: 0
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Votes: 0
To fear love is to fear life.... Votes: 0
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. Votes: 0
Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine. Votes: 0
A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it. Votes: 0
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. Votes: 0
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. Votes: 0
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible. Votes: 0
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true Votes: 0
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. Votes: 0
Sin is geographical. Votes: 0
All movements go too far. Votes: 0
All forms of fear produce fatigue. Votes: 0
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. Votes: 0
I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD Votes: 0
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. Votes: 0
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. Votes: 0
Beware the man of the single book Votes: 0
What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them? Votes: 0
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? Votes: 0
Love is wise â Hatred is foolish. Votes: 0
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Votes: 0
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. Votes: 0
Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. Votes: 0
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. Votes: 0
What is matter? Never mind. Votes: 0
Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. Votes: 0
Worry is a form of fear. Votes: 0
[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. Votes: 0
Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau. Votes: 0
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. Votes: 0
Do not feel certain of anything. Votes: 0
In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that. Votes: 0
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. Votes: 0
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world. Votes: 0
The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty. Votes: 0
Only six need be attempted. Votes: 0
The essence of education is that it is a change effected in the organism to satisfy the operator. Votes: 0
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found Votes: 0
The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading Votes: 0
I do so hate to leave this world. Votes: 0
A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us Votes: 0
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us. Votes: 0
Memory demands an image. Votes: 0
Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries. Votes: 0
Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife. Votes: 0
Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction. Votes: 0
How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis? Votes: 0
I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation. Votes: 0
If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique. Votes: 0
If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent. Votes: 0
The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else. Votes: 0
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. Votes: 0
Philosophy bakes no bread Votes: 0
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. Votes: 0
In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided. Votes: 0
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. Votes: 0
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment. Votes: 0
The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. Votes: 0
The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself. Votes: 0
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. Votes: 0
Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head. Votes: 0
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis. Votes: 0
What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power. Votes: 0
Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. Votes: 0
Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable. Votes: 0
I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation. Votes: 0
Choose your parents wisely. Votes: 0
One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days. Votes: 0
... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. Votes: 0
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. Votes: 0