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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.



Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness



Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.



What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life



Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.



The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.



There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.



Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.



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



The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible



Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of he main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.



Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.



Drunkenness is temporary suicide.



To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do



The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it








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