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" I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. "

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" Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. "

Bertrand Russell

People

Because

Criticism

" Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. "

" Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. "

" 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. "

" One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. "

" War does not determine who is right - only who is left. "

" In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. "

Bertrand Russell

Result

Experience

" 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. "

" There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. "

" I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. "

" A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. "

" In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. "

" The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. "

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Family

Small

" The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. "

" Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. "

" The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe. "

" 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. "

Bertrand Russell

Belief

Worth

" 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. "

" Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. "

" Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. "

" Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. "

" We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. "

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

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Possessions

Anything

" Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. "

" If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. "

" 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. "