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"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." |
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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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"Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation." |
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"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts ? the less you know, the hotter you get." |
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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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"Never let yourself be diverted either by what you would wish to believe or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. Look only at . . . the facts." |
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"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic." |
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"Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed." |
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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness." |
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"Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom." |
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