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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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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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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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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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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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