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The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms. - [Faith] The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. - [Happiness] The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - [Time] The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. - [Universe] The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - [Certainty] The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things. - [Trouble] Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone. - [Thinking] To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - [Democracy] To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement. - [Concentration] To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. - [Leisure] To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead. - [Brain] To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - [Fear] To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it. - [Philosophy] Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is, one of the main causes of great political events. - [Hunger] We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. - [Education] What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite. - [Belief] When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid. - [Stupidity] Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. - Philosophical Essays (no. 4) [Mathematics] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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