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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.