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 RUSSELLPhilosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Sin is geographical.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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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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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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