"I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out."
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"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."
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"Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace."
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"I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds."
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"To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love."
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"All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation."
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"I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool."
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"When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid."
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"Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict."
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"The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy."
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"I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything."
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"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
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"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value."
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"As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods."
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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
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"If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God."
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"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."
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"Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom."
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"It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion."
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"I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race."
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