Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.Bertrand Russell
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
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2. Analytic It is clear that the definition of 'logic' or 'mathematics' must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of 'analytic' propositions.
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
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Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
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