Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELLNo one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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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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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to 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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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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