Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
BERTRAND RUSSELLDogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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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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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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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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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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