Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTo be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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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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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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