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Bertrand Russell

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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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
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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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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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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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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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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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Born Hope Misery
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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