It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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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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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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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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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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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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.
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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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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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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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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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