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"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
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"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
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"Perhaps it is true that all that happens is in accordance with Your will, and thus it is good. But sometimes You leave blood on Your instruments."
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"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected."
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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."
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"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"War grows out of ordinary human nature."
Conflict
"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
Philosophy
"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
Fear
"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."
Love
"The importance of Man, which is the one indispensable dogma of the theologians, receives no support from a scientific view of the future of the solar system."
Science
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Life
"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
Ethics
"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."
War
"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
Science
"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept."
Awareness
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