Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThose who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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