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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. ↗

— John Ruskin

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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. ↗

— 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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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