What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition ...
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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...
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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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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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Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to kn...
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The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence is to be found in math...
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To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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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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If [a man] spent his money, say, in giving parties for his friends, they (we may hope) would get pleasure, and so would all those upon whom he spent m...
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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...
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Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.
