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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Bertrand Russell

To write a tragedy, a man must feel the tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
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Deep Feeling Man Tragedy Writing
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Deep Habit Life Love Ourselves
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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Himself Man Marriage Woman
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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Angry Energy Philosophy Waste
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Greatness Learning Philosophy Time
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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Born Education Man Stupidity
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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Company Happiness Life Love
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Happiness Hate People Person
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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Deep Happiness Secret World
Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Believe Doubt Myself People Philosophy Thinking
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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Believe Fundamental Honesty Integrity Myself Philosophy Thinking Yourself
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Fear Mad Philosophy
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Kill Patriotism Willing

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