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“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

Bertrand Russell · Intelligence

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Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

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

Patriotism

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

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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.

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