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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.

Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
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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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy
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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Healthy Philosophy
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
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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Doubt Existence God Myself Religion Thinking
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Crime Deep Life Philosophy Reality
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Healing Mankind Philosophy
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
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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Angry Leave People Philosophy
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View

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