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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Most people would rather die than think: many do.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

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.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people s ofull of doubts.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.