To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.Bertrand Russell
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead
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Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man.
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Its not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.
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Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
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