Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNever try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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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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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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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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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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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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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Sin is geographical.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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