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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, ...There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge....Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by e...To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are al...The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure a...War does not determine who is right - only who is left....The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of bei...In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a q...Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main...The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be l...Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguise...Education, which was at first made universal in order that a...Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual c...A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal...So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospe...The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics ...The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple...The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence....Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the ...One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and...The most savage controversies are those about matters as to ...Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never ...I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong....A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philo...Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I...If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a f...Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you ...The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by...When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, a...Drunkenness is temporary suicide....It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do any...'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have gove...The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for ou...Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so....One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is t...Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion no...It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything els...If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal ci...Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this...The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time....Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least ...It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of ce...To be without some of the things you want is an indispensabl...It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a gr...I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating ...The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their ch...Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited fr...The mind is a strange machine which can combine the material...I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some ...Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of co...If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts,...In the part of this universe that we know there is great inj...If there were in the world today any large number of people ...All movements go too far....A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be...It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves b...Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more t...Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supr...Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather ...Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for triv...Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most b...It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life ...No one gossips about other people's secret virtues....Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man ...The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those wh...The main things which seem to me important on their own acco...The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem...Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limi...The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not m...The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a v...This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd th...What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scienti...There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the cr...Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings cha...This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philo...Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essenti...There are two motives for reading a book one, that you enjoy...Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men al...Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always pr...When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, a...Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most...The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence...One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is ...To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product...We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one whi...It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ...It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exac...Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the...