Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
BERTRAND RUSSELLPhilosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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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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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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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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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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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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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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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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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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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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