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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. "
Bertrand Russell
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" Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. "
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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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" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "
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" War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "
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" Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. "
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" There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. "
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" The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. "
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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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" 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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" The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. "
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" The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. "
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" Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "
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" When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. "
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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 place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. "
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" Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. "
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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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" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. "
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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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" Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. "
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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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" Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. "
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" Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. "
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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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" 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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