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Logician Inspirational Quotes (2011)

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A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
Bertrand Russell
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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
Aristotle
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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
Jean Piaget
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Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
Alan Turing
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Aristotle
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It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
Bertrand Russell
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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.
Lewis Carroll
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Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.
Bertrand Russell
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A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
Aristotle
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A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.
Aristotle
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By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
Aristotle
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle
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Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone reading his outburst of furious indignation against this opinion will be forced to the conclusion that he enjoyed inflicting floggings.
Bertrand Russell
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The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.
Aristotle
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence
Bertrand Russell
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped but never as bad as you feared.
Bertrand Russell
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... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
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Youth loves honor and victory more than money.
Aristotle
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Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
Aristotle
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
Aristotle
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For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle
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