Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThose 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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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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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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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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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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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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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