The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
From Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
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.
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
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.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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