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| 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. | | Life | |
| Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. | | Uncategorized | |
| Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. | | Religion | |
| Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. | | Religion | |
| Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. | | Uncategorized | |
| Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. | | Discipline | |
| Rules of conduct, whatever they may be are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good | | Uncategorized | |
| Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead | | Heart; Science; Teachers and teaching | |
| Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. | | Science | |
| Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin. | | Marriage; Sex | |
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| Since evolution became fashionable, the glorification of Man has taken a new form. | | Evolution | |
| So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy. | | Knowledge | |
| Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is | | Opinions | |
| specially in males. I suppose that in the hunting stage it was more easily gratified than it has been since. The chase was exciting, war was exciting, courtship was exciting. A savage would manage to commit adultery with a woman while her husband is | | Uncategorized | |
| That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes. | | Uncategorized | |
| The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. | | Uncategorized | |
| The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts. | | Trouble | |
