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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
Opinion
"Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce 'proofs' of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors - Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs, and Kant rejected Descartes' - but they have supplied new ones of their own. In order to make their proofs seem valid, they have had to falsify logic, to make mathematics mystical, and to pretend that deepseated prejudices were heaven-sent intuitions."
Philosophy
"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
"A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short."
Life
"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."
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
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Personal Development
"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."
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Personal Development
"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
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"Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does."
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"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
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Personal Development
"Cynicism is the humour of hatred."
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Personal Development
"I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it."
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Personal Development
"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
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Personal Development
"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
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Personal Development
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