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Christ believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

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

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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling

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William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. Atlast, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. Whencompletely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. Itwas 'Asmell of petroleum prevailsthroughout'.

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Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

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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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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life.

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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

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No great achievement is possible without persistent work.

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Change is one thing, progress is another. 'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

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Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.

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Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

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The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

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3. Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, 'purely formal'.

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

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Never let yourself be diverted either by what you would wish to believe or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. Look only at ... the facts.

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