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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Topic: Ability
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Topic: Beliefs
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If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.
Topic: Books
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Topic: Boredom
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Topic: Christianity
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Topic: Christianity
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Topic: Circumstances
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
Topic: Civilization
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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.
Topic: Compromise
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Topic: Death
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Most people would rather die than think: many do.
Topic: Death
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Most people would rather die than think;
in fact, they do so.
Topic: Death / Immortality
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Topic: Death / Immortality
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All human activity is prompted by desire.
Topic: Desire
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Topic: Doubt
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Topic: Doubt
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.
Topic: Doubt
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Topic: Equality
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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Topic: Happiness
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Topic: Hatred
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Topic: Hope
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Topic: Hypocrisy
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Topic: Illusion
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There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
Topic: Knowledge
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There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
Topic: Knowledge
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Topic: Love
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Topic: Love
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Topic: Nature
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Topic: Nervousness
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Topic: Patriotism
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Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously.
Topic: Philosophy
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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real estate, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Topic: Please title this page. (mercy.html)
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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Topic: Property
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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Topic: Reason
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Topic: War
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
Topic: Women
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