To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
Curious learning not only makes unpleasant things less unpleasant but also makes pleasant things more pleasant.
I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
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.
Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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.
Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States.
Almost all education has a political motive.
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the destruction of Germany. A month ago Europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an Englishman killed a German, he was hanged. Now, if an Englishman kills a German, or if a German kills an Englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.
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. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was 'A smell of petroleum prevails throughout'.
I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.
The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.
Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.
No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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