The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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.
My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.
I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in a state of wild collective terror... As, however, there were no journalists among them, the terror died down when the airplane was out of sight.
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.
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
Organized people are just too lazy to look for things
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.
Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.
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