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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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The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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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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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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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.
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
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