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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. - [Happiness] A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. - [Adventure] A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. - [Duty] All human activity is prompted by desire. - [Desire] Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. - [Happiness] Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. - [Boredom] Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. - [Civilization] Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. - [Change] Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - [Eccentricity] Do not feel certain of anything. - [Certainty] Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. - [Metaphysics] Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. - [Civilization] Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. - [Freedom] Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - [Freedom] Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents. - [Life] I do so hate to leave this world. - [Death] If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it. - [Writers] 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. - [Questions] It is a preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. - [Possession] It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out. - [Evil] It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. - [Anger] Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children. - [Love] Love, children, and work are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world. - [Children : Love] Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery. - [Machines] Man can be scientifically manipulated. - [Man] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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