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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

Because Consistent Easier Fact
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I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Believe Between Dualism Facts
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Actual Artist Consenting Dream
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Changing Happier Hopelessly Interested
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Difficulty Education Experience Get
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friends Human Human Race Part
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

About Events Happened History
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To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Controlled Dreadful Geography Me
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Any Chaos Confusion Minds
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Almost Balance Every Less
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Sanity is madness put to good use.

Good Madness Put Sanity
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A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Child Educated Only School
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Birth Cure Death Enjoy
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Conclusions Draw Experience Lead
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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Almost Always Another Friends
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Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Best Friends Low Men
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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Courage Dignity Grace His
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Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Disillusionment Wisdom Comes By
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In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

Decide Fools Greece Men
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Build Emotional Emotional Life Life
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Cruel Free Loved Makes
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Feast Life Predicament Spectacle
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My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
Definition Modernism Took While
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Fool Laugh Man Older
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Been Education Forgotten Learned
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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Anything Child Give Him
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Machines Men Problem Real
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
Attacks Early Helpless Individual
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

Always Came Decisions Design
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Books Great Love Reading
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Change Environment Old Try
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Act Affect Again Consequences
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

Amount Carried Important More
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Always Best Circumstances Failure
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Drop Else Everything Interesting
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The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Act Area Being Directing
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.

Another Church Get Kind
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I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Bothered College Faith Freshman
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Basically Been Behave Believe
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

Improve Know Prefer Religion
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Changed Culture Inherited Last
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Along Coming Get Quantity
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Apply Behavior Benefits Changing
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

Down Falls Individual Insist
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Avoid Been Behave Best
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Abandoned Continue Deteriorate Environment
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

Behavior Committed Culture Deprivation
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

Bar Chief Complacent Knowledge
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