Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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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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Sin is geographical.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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