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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.



Vanity is a motive of immense potency.



What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.



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.



Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate



Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know



Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines



Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines



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.



This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.



Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never



There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action



Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself…. When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with … that of former times, we see that “chemical imperialism” has been … the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.



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







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