The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.
You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
We need a science to save us from science.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
All forms of fear produce fatigue.
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.
Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love.
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational.
dont let the old break you; let the love make you
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