Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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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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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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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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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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Philosophy, 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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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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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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