Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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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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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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