Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
BERTRAND RUSSELLWe 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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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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