Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Even if it is indifferent to human desires, as it seems to be; if human life is a passing episode, hardly noticeable in the vastness of cosmic processes; if there is no superhuman purpose, and no hope of ultimate salvation, it is better to know and acknowledge this truth than to endeavor, in futile self-assertion, to order the universe to be what we find comfortable.

Bertrand Russell's Popular Quotes

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who contr…

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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

- Bertrand Russell

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

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At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to unders…

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To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

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In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.

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Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

- Bertrand Russell