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"Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical."
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"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."
"But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing."
"Any belief which encourages you to use your own intellect, which motivates you to question everything and points out your own mind as the only road for your salvation is a good belief!"
"Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion."
"Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic."
"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."
"Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing."
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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor."
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
"In the modern world, however, love has another enemy more dangerous than religion, and that is the gospel of work and economic success. It is generally held, especially in America, that a man should not allow love to interfere with his career, and that if he does, he is silly. But in this as in all human matters a balance is necessary."
"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
"When the qualities that now confer leadership have become universal, there will no longer be leaders and followers, and democracy will have been realized at last."
"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."
"The good life as I conceive it is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
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