Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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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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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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