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" A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. "
Bertrand Russell
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" Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. "
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" I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. "
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" Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical. "
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" Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. "
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" 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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" We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. "
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" The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. "
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" I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. "
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" The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. "
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" To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. "
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" A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. "
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" Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. "
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" Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. "
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" Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform. "
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" Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "
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" The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause. "
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" Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. "
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" A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. "
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" If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. "
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" Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. "
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" Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. "
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" To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "
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" Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. "
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" The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist. "
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