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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.

Bertrand Russell

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Forget Humanity Remember Yourself
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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Intelligence Prepare Present
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Fear Goodness Hope Writing Yourself
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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Believe Important Oneself
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Existence Freedom Opinion Secure
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Deep Politics Truth
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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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
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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Beginning Ideas Philosophy Reason World
Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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End Let Go Life
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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Desire Ourselves Passion Power Respect
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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Deep Fear Hands Religion
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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Himself Man Marriage Woman
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Effort Greatness Happiness People Philosophy

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