Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELLSometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Those 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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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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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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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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