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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. "

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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. "

" The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. "

" 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. "

" A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. "

" Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. "

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" Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. "

" Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. "

" I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. "

" 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. "

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

" What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. "

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

" With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. "

" 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. "

" The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. "

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" There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. "

" Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. "

" A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. "

" Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. "

" No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. "

" The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. "

" Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. "

" In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. "

" 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. "

" Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. "

" The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. "

" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "

" Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. "