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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

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Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we hav...more

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for gra...more

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I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

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What I Have Lived ForThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbe...more

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the s...more

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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

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We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

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...love must feel the ego of the beloved person as important as one's own ego, and must realize the other's feelings and wishes as though they were on...more

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There is another more psychological obstacle to the full development of love in the modern world, and that is the fear that many people feel of not pr...more