It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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 secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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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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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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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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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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