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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 wome...more

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When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, ...more

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coex...more

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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved....more

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The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human sel...more

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There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle.

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

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

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All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to...more

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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know

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Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of ve...more

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It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are b...more

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Simpson succeeded in proving that there was no harm in giving anaesthetics to men because God put Adam into a deep sleep when He extracted his rib. B...more