Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings.
Source: What I Believe (1925)
Topic
264 quotes about truth.
Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings.
The world is a unity, and the man who pretends to live independently is a conscious or unconscious parasite.
Several mice offered themselves for this mission and set out to find the young captain.
Which of us deserves the most credit? they cried all at once.
No, indeed, cried the mouse with the cropped ears; the credit is mine.
No, it is mine, cried the lame one, for I ran off with the ring.
It is true that this duty is a hard one, and the doubt which comes out of it is often a very bitter thing.
It leaves us bare and powerless where we thought that we were safe and strong.
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.
It is the sense of power attached to a sense of knowledge that makes men desirous of believing, and afraid of doubting.
This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
But if the belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence, the pleasure is a stolen one.
Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence.
Love is a word which covers a variety of feelings; I have used it purposely, as I wish to include them all.
The good life must be lived in a good society, and is not fully possible otherwise.