The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPhilosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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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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