The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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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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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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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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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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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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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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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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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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