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The main things which seem

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
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The people who are regarded

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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Our great democracies still tend

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
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No one gossips about other

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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It has been said that

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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Passive acceptance of the teacher's

Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
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Patriotism is the willingness to

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Life is nothing but a

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not

Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
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Men fear thought as they

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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