"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
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"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."
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"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."
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"Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her."
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"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."
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"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."
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"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
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"It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you."
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"No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues."
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
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"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
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"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."
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"The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right."
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"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."
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"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
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"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."
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"So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation."
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"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."
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"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live."
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"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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