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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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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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When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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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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Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no ...more

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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.