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Bertrand Russell: top 100 quotes
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Capitalism (n.) is summed up by the idea that the fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Mathematics (n.) is the practice of deriving theorems from axioms -nothing more, nothing less.
Mathematics (n.) is the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Mathematics (n.) is a subject identical with logic.
Mathematics (n.) is the construction and exploration of formal systems. Insofar as it is 'formal', it has no necessary relation to anything in 'the real world'.
Mathematics (n.) is possessed not only of truth, but of supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
The Good life (n.) is a happy life, not because if you are good you will be happy, but if you are happy you will be good.
Love (n.) is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse... it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Love (n.) is a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Life (n.) is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Marriage (n.) is the waste-paper basket of emotions.
Marriage (n.) 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.
Truth (n.) is what one is obliged to tell policemen.
Truth (n.) is a shining goddess, always veiled, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.
Death (n.) is already at work in one who refuses to live. Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Happiness (n.) is an indispensable part thereof.
Man (n.) is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.