There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. |
There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes |
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children. |
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. |
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action |
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths |
There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship. |
There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote. |
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone |
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. |
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind. |
This is a pretty fable, and I will not deny that it is logically possible, but that is the utmost that I will concede. |
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them |
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the `common man'. |
Those who first advocated religious toleration were thought wicked, and so were the early opponents of slavery. |