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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. "
Bertrand Russell
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" Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias. "
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" War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "
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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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" Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. "
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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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" Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. "
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" Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. "
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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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" Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. "
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" The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. "
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" Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. "
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