We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present, very few people have reached this level.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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.
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Sin is geographical.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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The secret of happiness is very simple: 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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