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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
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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.
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
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