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" A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. "

Bertrand Russell

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" No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? "

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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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" Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. "

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" I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along. "

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" To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. "

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" The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. "

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" Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. "

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" It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. "

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" Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. "

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" Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. "

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" The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. "

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" Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. "

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" Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. "

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" I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. "

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" Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "

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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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" No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. "

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" It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. "

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" The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. "

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" The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. "

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" A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. "

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" Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. "

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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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" 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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" Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. "

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" Drunkenness is temporary suicide. "

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