The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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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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