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" Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. "

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" The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. "

" 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. "

" The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. "

" Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. "

" No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? "

" The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. "

" So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. "

" Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

" Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. "

" I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. "

" I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. "

" To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. "

" Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. "

" The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. "

" To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. "

" Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. "

" The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. "

" Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. "

" 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. "

" Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. "

" 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. "

" To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "

" Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. "

" Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. "

" Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. "

" Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. "

" Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. "

" Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. "

" The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. "