What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
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Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.Alfred North Whitehead
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.
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The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race.
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