Tag: Bertrand Russell

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.

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The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

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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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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 thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

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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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