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“To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observation, not by consulting ancient authorities. But this is an entirely modern conception, which hardly existed before the seventeenth century.”
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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
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“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
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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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“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”
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“You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism”
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“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite”
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“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible”
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“Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one”
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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge”
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“The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things”
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