| Quotes |
Topic |
| Ability | Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. |
| Beliefs | What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite. |
| Books | If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it. |
| Boredom | Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. |
| Christianity | To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. |
| Christianity | Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. |
| Circumstances | If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. |
| Civilization | Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. |
| Compromise | Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. |
| Science | Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. |
| Death | To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. |
| Death | Most people would rather die than think: many do. |
| Immortality | Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. |
| Immortality | To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. |
| Desire | All human activity is prompted by desire. |
| Doubt | The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. |
| Doubt | In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. |
| Doubt | The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts. |
| Happiness | Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. |
| Hatred | Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. |
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