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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Category: Math Author: Bertrand Russell
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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.
Category: Math Author: Bertrand Russell
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We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
Category: Morality Author: Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Category: Patriotism Author: Bertrand Russell
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Sin is geographical.
Category: Perspective Author: Bertrand Russell
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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?
Category: Perspective Author: Bertrand Russell
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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.
Category: Philosophical Author: Bertrand Russell
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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.
Category: Philosophy Author: Bertrand Russell
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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
Category: Philosophy Author: Bertrand Russell
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To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
Category: Philosophy Author: Bertrand Russell
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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Category: Property Author: Bertrand Russell
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No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right.
Category: Religion Author: Bertrand Russell
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I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
Category: Science Author: Bertrand Russell
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Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.
Category: Science Author: Bertrand Russell
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one\'s work is terribly important.
Category: Stress Author: Bertrand Russell
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth, more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
Category: Thinking Author: Bertrand Russell
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Category: War Author: Bertrand Russell
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Category: War Author: Bertrand Russell
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