So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt 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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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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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Sin is geographical.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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