Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThis has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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So far as I can remember there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
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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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The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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