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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.

Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Evidence Goodness Savage
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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Deep Philosophy Science Yourself
No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Believe Deep Nation Virtue
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Death Deep People Philosophy Thinking
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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Deep Philosophy Try Yourself
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Deep Feeling Happiness Live
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Burn Hard Learning Let Go Life
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Success Thinking Try
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Intelligence Myself Religious Remember
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
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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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing

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