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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. - Author object (559)

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. - Author object (559)

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. - Author object (559)

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. - Author object (559)

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power. - Author object (559)

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. - Author object (559)

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. - Author object (559)

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Author object (559)

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. - Author object (559)

It's easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you. - Author object (559)

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Author object (559)

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. - Author object (559)

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. - Author object (559)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. - Author object (559)

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. - Author object (559)

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts. - Author object (559)

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Author object (559)

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Author object (559)

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. - Author object (559)

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Author object (559)