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［n.0085：A stupid man's report] A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand. （Source：A History fo Western Philosophy, 1945.） ［n.0084：Curiosity] All sorts of intellectual systems - Christianity, Socialism, Patriotism, etc - are ready, like orphan asylums, to give safety in return for servitude. （Source） ［n.0083：Curiosity] Although curiosity lessens in intensity and in extent after childnood, it may for a long time improve in quality. （Source） ［n.0082：The desire to instil what are regarded as correct beliefs] The desire to instil what are regarded as correct beliefs has made educationists too often indifierent to the training of intelligence..（Source） ［n.0081：Knowledge and Intelligence] No doubt the word 'intelligence' properly signifies rather an aptitude for acquiring knowledge than knowledge already acquired.（Source） ［n.0080：The influence of science] Science has greatly increased our power of affecting the lives of distant people, without increasing our sympathy for them.（Source） ［n.0079：Courageous behaviour] Courageous behaviour is easier for a man who fails to apprehend dangers, but such courage may often be foolish..（Source） ［n.0078：Renouncing pleasure] Having renounced pleasure for himself, the ascetic saint renounces it for others also, which is easier.（Source） ［n.0077：Cruelty as an offshoot of cowardice] The cruelty invariably displayed in suppressing Negro insurrections, communist rebellions and ouher threats to aristocracy, is an offshoot of cowardice, and deserves the same contempt as it bestowed upon the more obvious forms of that vice.（Source） ［n.0076：To overcom fear in feeling] Fear should be overcome not only in action, but in feeling.（Source） ［n.0075：Human beings are prone to become absorbed in themselves] Human beings are prone to become absorbed in themselves, unable to be interested in what they see and hear or in anything outside their own skins..（Source） ［n.0074：Vitality promotes objectivity] Vitality makes it easy to take an interest in whatever occurs, and thus promotes objectivity.（Source） ［n.0073：Children as a raw material for some scheme] Children and young people feel instinctively the difference between those who genuinely wish them well and those who regard them merely as a raw material for some scheme. （Source） ［n.0072：Good habits] Good habits can make a great part of virtue almost automatic.（Source） ［n.0071：Happiness in childhood] Happiness in childhood is absolutely necessary to the production of the best type of human being.（Source） ［n.0070：The tortures of which upright men have been guilty] I shudder when I think of the wars, the tortures, the oppressions, of which upright men have been guilty, under the impression that they were righteously castigating 'moral evil'..（Source） ［n.0069：Habits of mind] The right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.（Source） ［n.0068：The conquest of leisure and health] What will be the good of the conquest of leisure and health, if no one remembers how to use them?（Source） ［n.0067：The aims of education] There can be no agreement between those who regard education as a means of instilling certain definite beliefs, and those who think that it should produce the power of independent judgement.（Source） ［n.0066：Not as an alternative to our own happiness] We should desire the happiness of those whom we love, but not as an alternative to our own.（Source） ［n.0065：The happy man] The happy man is the man who lives objectively, who has free affections and wide interests, who secures his happiness through these interests and affections and through the fact that they, in turn, make him an object of interest and affection to many others.（Source） ［n.0064：Learning to endure the truth] Those who can only do their work when upheld by self-deception had better first take a course in learning to endure the truth before continuing their career, since sooner or later the need of being sustained by myths will cause their work to become harmful instead of beneficial.（Source） ［n.0063：Not waste time and emotion] Efficiency in a practical task is not proportional to the emotion that we put into it.（Source） ［n.0062：Not waste time and emotion] The wise man, though he wiil not sit down under preventable misfortunes, will not waste time and emotion upon such as are unavoidable, and even such as are in themselves avoidable he will submit to if the time and labour required to avoid them would interfere with the pursuit of some more important object.（Source） ［n.0061：many things are believed because they are interesting] Truth is not always interesting, and many things are believed because they are interesting; although, in fact, there is little other evidence in their favour.（Source） ［n.0060：To bear misfortune well when it comes] To bear misfortune well when it comes, it is wise to have cultivated in happier times a certain width of interests（Source） ［n.0059：Enlargement of the mind] It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by any impartial survey of the world.（Source） ［n.0058： The essence of fanaticsim] Fanaticism consists essentially in remembering one or two desirable things while forgetting all the rest, and in supposing that in the pursuit of these one or two any incidental harm of other sorts is of little account.（Source） ［n.0057： Undue reaction] We are all inclined to get unduly excited, unduly strained, unduly impressed with the importance of the little corner of the world in which we live, and of the little moment of time comprised between our birth and death. （Source） ［n.0056：Many things in the world are entirely unaffected by what we do] It is very easy to become so absorbed in our own pursuits, our own circle, our own type of work, that we forget how small a part this is of the total of human acitivity and how many things in the world are entirely unaffected by what we do. （Source） ［n.0055：To forget work at the times when it ought to be forgotten] It is very much easier to forget work at the times when it ought to be forgotten if a man has many interests other than his work than it is if he has not. （Source） ［n.0054：Subconscious thought] Except in sleep the conscious mind is never allowed to lie fallow while subconscious thought matures its gradual wisdom.（Source） ［n.0053：One of the sources of unhappiness] One of the sources of unhappiness, fatigue, and nervous strain is inability to be interested in anything that is not of practical importance in one's own life.（Source） ［n.0052：Consistent purpose] Consistent purpose is not enough to make life happy, but it is an almost indispensable condition of a happy life. （Source） ［n.0051：To cure the habit of hatred] Few things are so likely to cure the habit of hatred as the opportunity to do constructive work of an important kind.（Source） ［n.0050：The most satisfactory purposes] The most satisfactory purposes are those that lead on indefinitely from one success to another without ever coming to a dead end; and in this respect it will be found that construction is a greater source of happiness than destruction.（Source） ［n.0049：To be able to fill leisure intelligently] To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilisation, and at present very few people have reached this level.（Source） ［n.0048：the stream of life] To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future. As a conscious sentiment, expressed in set terms, this involves no doubt a hyper-civili.（Source） ［n.0047：The relations of parents and chndren] Affection of parents for children and of children for parents is capable of being one of the greatest sources of happiness, but in fact at the present day the relations of parents and chndren are, in nine cases out of ten, a source of unhappiness to both parties, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred a source of unhappiness to at least one of the two parties..（Source） ［n.0046：Genuin Affection] Affection in the sense of a genuiun reciprocal interest for two persons in each other, not solely as means to each other's good, but rather as a combination having a common good, is one of the most important elements of real happiness, and the man whose ego is so enclosed within steel walls that this enlargement of it is impossible misses the best that life has to offer, however suceessful he may be in his career. .（Source） ［n.0045：Love is blind] 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.（Source） ［n.0044：The man in whom one desire runs to excess] The man in whom one desire runs to excess at the expense of all others is usually a man with some deep seated trouble, who is seeking to escape from a spectre.（Source） ［n.0043：Very specialised interests] Very specialised interests are, however, a less satisfactory source of happiness than a general zest for lffe, since they can hardly fill the whole of a man's time, and there is always the danger that he may come to know all there is to know about the particular matter that has become his hobby.（Source） ［n.0042：What will interest a man] It is quite impossible to guess in advance what will interest a man, but most men are capable of a keen interest in something or other, and when once such an interest has been aroused their life becomes free from tedium.（Source） ［n.0041：Life is too short to be interested in everything] Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days.（Source） ［n.0040：The more opportunities of happiness] The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate,.（Source） ［n.0039：Let your interests be as wide as possible] The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. （Source） ［n.0038：To like many people spontaneously and without effort] To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. （Source） ［n.0037：A friendly interest in persons] A friendly interest in persons is a form of affectionateness, but not the form which is grasping and possessive and seeking always an emphatic response. （Source） ［n.0036：To underestimates and to overestimates] The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure.（Source） ［n.0035：The best way to increase toleration] The best way to increase toleration is to multiply the number of individuals who enjoy real happiness and do not therefore find their chief pleasure in the infliction of pajn upon their fellow-men. （Source） ［n.0034：Regulate the lives of the old] When the young attempt to regulate the lives of the old, as, for example, by objecting to the remarriage of a widowed parent, they are quite as much in the wrong as are the old who attempt to regulate the lives of the young. （Source） ［n.0033：Broaden your outlook!] It easily seems to the young as if the only milieu with which they are acquainted were representative of the whole world. （Source） ［n.0032：Desire to persecute you] Don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you. （Source） ［n.0031：Don't expect too much to others] Don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. （Source） ［n.0030：Don't over-estimate your own merits] Don't over-estimate your own merits. （Source） ［n.0029：A dishonest motive] Remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. （Source） ［n.0028：To expect to be perfect] Nobody should expect to be prefect, or be unduly troubled by the fact that he is not.（Source） ［n.0027：he happiness that requires intoxication] The happiness that requires intoxication of no matter what sort is a spurious and unsatisfying kind..（Source） ［n.0026：Internal harmony] On the contrary, since rationality consists in the main of internal harmony, the man who achieves it is freer in his contemplation of the world and in the use of his energies to achieve external purposes than is the man who is perpetually hampered by inward conflicts. .（Source） ［n.0025：Dissociaton of personality] Nothing so much diminishes not only happiness but efficiency as a personality divided against itself..（Source） ［n.0024：When a rational conviction has been arrived at] When a rational conviction has been arrived at, it is necessary to dwell upon it, to follow out its consequences, to search out in oneself whatever beliefs inconsistent with the new conviction might otherwise survive.（Source） ［n.0023：Causes of your feeling] Whenever you begin to feel remorse for an act which your reason tells you is not wicked, examine the causes of your feeling of remorse, and convince yourself in detail of their absurdity.（Source） ［n.0022：Moral code] Gradually as he grew older he forgot where his moral code had come from and what had originally been the penalty for disobeying it, but he did not throw off the moral code or cease to feel that something dreadful was liable to happen to him if he infringed it. .（Source） ［n.0021：Conscience] We know that conscience enjoins different acts in different parts of the worid, and,that broadly speaking it is everywhere in agreement with tribal custom. .（Source） ［n.0020：seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations] Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.（Source） ［n.0019：The envious person] The habit of thinking in terms of comparisons is a fatal one.（Source） ［n.0018：The envious person] The envious person derives pain from what others have, instead of deriving pleasure from what he has. （Source） ［n.0017：Desire for excitement] Desire for excitement, when it goes beyond a point, is a sign either of a twisted disposition or of some instinctive dissatisfaction. （Source） ［n.0016：One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown] One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. （Source） ［n.0015：The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self] The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist. （Source） ［n.0014：The fructifying kind of boredom,] In flying from the fructifying kind of boredom, they fall a prey to the other far worse kind. （Source） ［n.0013：To endure voluntarily a great deal of boredom] A boy or young man who has some serious constructive purpose will endure voluntarily a great deal of boredom if he finds that it is necessary by the way. （Source） ［n.0012：The value of boredom] All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. （Source） ［n.0011：Power of enduring boredom] A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that ought to be taught to the young. （Source） ［n.0010：An exhausting life] A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stimuli are needed to give the thrill that has come to be thought an essential part of pleasure.（Source） ［n.0009：Fear of boredom] We are less bored than our ancestors were, but we are more afraid of boredom.（Source） ［n.0008：The definition of boredom] Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another.（Source） ［n.0007： Much emphasis upon competitive success] What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly porchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.（Source） ［n.0006：Treadmill] It is very singular how little men seem to realise that they are not caught in the grip of a mechanism from which there is no escape, but that the treadmill is one upon which they remain merely because they have not noticed that it fails to take them up to a higher level.（Source） ［n.0005：Love is able to break down the hard shell of the ego］ Love is the first and commonest form of emotion leading to cooperation, and those who have experienced love with any intensity will not be content with a philosophy that supposes their highest good to be independent of that of the person loved. (source) ［n.0004：A mutual admiration society］ It is very pleasant to have someone at hand who is sure to praise your work, whether it deserves it or not. (source) ［n.0003：A bad habit］ The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. (source) ［n.0002：Typical Unhappy Man］ The typical unhappy man is one who, having been deprived in youth of some normal satisfaction, has come to value this one kind of satisfaction more than any other, and has therefore given to his life a one-sided direction, together with a quite undue emphasis upon the achievement as opposed to the activities connected with it. (source) ［n.0001：Humanity and War］ To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need for our civlisation; but no such system has a chance while men are so unhappy that mutual extermination seems to them less dreadful than continued endurance of the light of day. (source) |