| |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. | | Work and Recreation | | | | | Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. | | Science and Religion | | | | | | | | One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. | | Work and Recreation | | | | | Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. | | War and Peace | | | | | Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. | | Science and Religion | | | | | So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. | | Science and Religion | | | | | The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. | | Science and Religion | | | | | The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | | | | | Aphorisms: 1 - 10 of 10 | Pages: 1 | | | |
