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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

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It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

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Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

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Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

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Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

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People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

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Atheism is too theological.

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There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

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We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

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