The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.Bertrand Russell
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.
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The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
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Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
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Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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