Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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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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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Sin is geographical.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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