When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

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The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

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To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

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