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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.

Bertrand Russell

I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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Angry Leave People Philosophy
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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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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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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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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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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.

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