Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. [...] The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
Organized people are just too lazy to look for things
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.
Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.
God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.
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