The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMost people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on the train. It is useful when you find yourself in the wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Sin is geographical.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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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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