Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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