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

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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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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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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the god...more

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Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.