Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. I had not imagined there was anything so delicious in the world. From that moment until I was thirty-eight, mathematics was my chief interest and my chief source of happiness.Bertrand Russell
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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Mankind . . . are a mistake. The universe would be sweeter and fresher without them
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The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so at other times he thinks about other things
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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We must care about the world of our children and grandchildren, a world we may never see.
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