So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
BERTRAND RUSSELLRemember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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 good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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