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 | "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the
belief that one"s work is terribly important." | |
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Found in the topic Ego.
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| "We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one
of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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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, in the pursuit of
truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life." | |
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Found in the topic Cruel.
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| "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the
stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." | |
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Found in the topic Doubt.
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| "War does not determine who is right ? only who is left." | |
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Found in the topic War.
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| "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial
reasons." | |
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Found in the topic Patriotism.
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| "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now
accepted was once eccentric." | |
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Found in the topic Fear.
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| "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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Found in the topic Afraid.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one
instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was
true." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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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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Found in the topic Conventional.
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| "Mathematics is the only science where one never knows what one is
talking about nor whether what is said is true." | |
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Found in the topic Science.
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| "Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don"t know." | |
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Found in the topic Canada.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Opinion.
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| "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 widespread belief is more likely to be foolish
than sensible." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is
merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness." | |
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Found in the topic Alcohol.
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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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Found in the topic Anger.
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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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Found in the topic Woe.
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| "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." | |
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Found in the topic Belief.
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