Bertrand Russell

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Schopenhauer

The universe and the human mind do not each separately cause the Absurd.

Which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Jesus

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. David Hume

If we don't know life, how can we know death? Confucius

You don't have to go East to go West.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Brief and powerless is Man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

“ Ce n'est pas assez d'avoir l'esprit bon, mais le principal est de l'appliquer bien.” Descartes

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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater.

There is all the difference in the world between knowing what to do, and doing it.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world. Wittgenstein

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle

The less men think, the more they talk. Montesquieu

Can you really, "Think Harder?"

True nobility is exempt from fear. Cicero