"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
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"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd."
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"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear."
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"Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"
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"There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
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"One must care about a world one will not see."
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
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"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."
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"There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts."
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."
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"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality."
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"The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it."
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"Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed."
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"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."
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