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... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures... More
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. More
A law explains a set of observations; a theory explains a set of laws. The quintessential... More
A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. More
A painter like Picasso, who runs through many periods and phases, ends up by saying all those... More
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a... More
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely... More
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked,... More
A thick stick in one’s hand makes people respectful. More
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream... More
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the... More
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are... More
Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter’s remark seemed to her to have no sort of meaning in... More
Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat... More
Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said,... More
All in the golden afternoon
Full leisurely we glide;
For both our oars, with little... More
Always speak the truth—think before you speak—and write it down afterwards. More
An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian... More
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and... More
And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes,... More
And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for... More
And so you have found out that secret—one of the deep secrets of Life—that all, that is... More
And then ... he flung open the door of my compartment, and ushered in “Ma young and lovely... More
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant
For peaceful sleep and meditative... More
And would you be a poet
Before you’ve been to school?
Ah, well! I hardly thought... More
And yet ... it moves. More
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the... More
Aristotle, as a philosopher, is in many ways very different from all his predecessors. He is the... More
As a general rule, do not kick the shins of the opposite gentleman under the table, if personally... More
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a... More
As one who strives a hill to climb,
Who never climbed before:
Who finds it in a little... More
Boredom is ... a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are... More
But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! for then
You will... More
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for... More
Causists have tried to twist “doing good” into another form of “doing evil,” and have... More
Change is one thing, progress is another. “Change” is scientific, “progress” is ethical;... More
Child of the pure unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet, and I... More
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it... More
Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard... More
Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say. It saves time. More
Doesn’t that show what an old man I am, when I can say to a mother “I love your daughter,”... More
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing,... More
Drunkenness ... is temporary suicide. More
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation... More
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear... More
Flushed with new life, the crowd flows back again:
And all is tangled talk and mazy... More
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favourable and unfavourable, masculine... More
For want of the apparatus of propositional functions, many logicians have been driven to the... More
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those... More
FROM his shoulder Hiawatha
Took the camera of rosewood,
Made of sliding, folding... More
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. More
Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is... More
Go, throng each other’s drawing-rooms,
Ye idols of a petty clique:
Strut your brief... More
God made integers, all else is the work of man. More
God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the learned. More
He had brought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And... More
He was part of my dream, of course—but then I was part of his dream, too! More
He was thoughtful and grave—but the orders he gave
Were enough to bewilder a crew.
When... More
Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be... More
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tale,
And pour the waters of the... More
I am not suggesting that there should be no morality and no self-restraint in regard to sex, any... More
I cried, “Come, tell me how you live!”
And thumped him on the head. More
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy... More
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything... More
I fear I agree with your friend in not liking all sermons. Some of them, one has to confess, are... More
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a... More
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but... More
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3... More
I hope I may claim in the present work to have made it probable that the laws of arithmetic are... More
I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one... More
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then... More
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world. More
I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as... More
I think, therefore I am.
[Cogito, ergo sum.] More
I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this... More
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to... More
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some... More
If doubtful whether to end with “yours faithfully,” or “yours truly,” or “yours most... More
If I have seen further [than certain other men] it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. More
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years,... More
If you address a ghost as “Thing!”
Or strike him with a hatchet,
He is permitted by... More
If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind,... More
In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but... More
In an English dinner-party ... I have never known small-talk run short! More
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a... More
In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt:... More
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions,... More
In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts—it is... More
In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer,... More
In so far as the statements of geometry speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far... More
In some ways, you know, people that don’t exist, are much nicer than people that do. More
In the game of “Whist for two,” usually called “Correspondence,” the lady plays what card... More
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word “experience” have been perceived,... More
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. More
It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that, whatever you... More
It is always allowable to ask for artichoke jelly with your boiled venison; however there are... More
It seems to me that science has a much greater likelihood of being true in the main than any... More
It would be disingenuous, however, not to point out that some things are considered as morally... More
It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the... More
I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be... More

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