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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
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