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Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than
love
of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised
love
of power.
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I must before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet – a thing that is not
love
or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things...
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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.
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Thee will find out in time that I have a great
love
of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I
love
life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and
love
lose their value because they are not everlasting.
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We
love
our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The politician may change sides so frequently as to find himself always in the majority, but most politicians have a preference for one party to the other, and subordinate their
love
of power to this preference.
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Love
should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
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The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing...
love
or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.
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I believe myself that romantic
love
is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who
love
each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.
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I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to
love
their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.
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Love
as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
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Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of
love
of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men.
Love
of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.
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Many people when they fall in
love
look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a
love
of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of the world.
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To fear
love
is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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In all affairs—
love
, religion, politics, or business—it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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The instinctive foundation of the intellectual life is curiosity, which is found among animals in its elementary forms. Intelligence demands an alert curiosity, but it must be of a certain kind. The sort that leads village neighbours to try to peer through curtains after dark has no very high value. The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a
love
of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Born:
May 18, 1872
Died:
February 2, 1970
(aged 97)
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