The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain.
Change is one thing, progress is another.
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.
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence.
Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
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