Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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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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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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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 only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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