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 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. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. Drunkenness is temporary suicide. We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness. If a philosophy is to bring happiness it should be inspired by kindly
feelings. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat; what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois. Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible One should 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 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. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Most Popular Topics:
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